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CODATA Policy Reports

This page lists some of the major data policy reports that CODATA has produced or to which CODATA has made a major contribution. Some of these reports are the direct outputs of CODATA activities or collaborations; some were enabled by significant external funding as project outputs or commissioned consultancy work; others are major policy documents, led by other organisations, but to which CODATA has made a significant contribution. Many of these reports have drawn on expertise from the CODATA International Data Policy Committee.

UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy for Times of Crisis (DPTC) Toolkit (2025): https://bit.ly/UNESCO-CODATA-DPTC-Toolkit

The toolkit comprises:
  • Factsheet: Provides an overview of the role of data policies in crisis situations and how open science can improve data management.
  • Guidance: Offers a structured framework for developing data policies aligned with open science principles.
  • Checklist: Helps stakeholders design data policies that reflect open science values.

The outcome of a two-year collaboration between UNESCO and CODATA.

WorldFAIR Policy Brief (2024): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11242702

A signficant set of policy recommendations from the EC-funded WorldFAIR project, coordinated by CODATA.

 

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949

CODATA Executive Director, Simon Hodson, was co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group for the Recommendation and made a significant contribution to its drafting and the consultation process.

Open Science for a Global Transformation: CODATA-coordinated submission to the UNESCO Open Science Consultation (2020): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3935461

CODATA coordinated this submission to the call for input for the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

CODATA Twenty-Year Review of GBIF (2020) https://doi.org/10.35035/ctzm-hz97

GBIF commissioned this 20-year review by CODATA, which has been very well-received by GBIF and by the wider biodiversity community. The work was led by (then) IDPC chair, Paul Uhlir, working closely with Hans Pfeiffenberger. CODATA Executive Director, Simon Hodson, coordinated and advised on the report.

 

Beijing Declaration on Research Data (2019): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3552330

 

 CODATA Paris

 

European Commission Expert Group, Turning FAIR into Reality (2018): https://doi.org/10.2777/1524

CODATA Executive Director, Simon Hodson, chaired the Expert Advisory Group, drafted significant parts and played the lead role in reviewing and editing the report.

 

SA-EU Open Science Dialogue Report (2018) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2559469

 

 

 

 

Business models for sustainable research data repositories (with OECD, 2017): https://doi.org/10.1787/302b12bb-en

 

 

 

 

Guidelines for the Legal Interoperability of Research Data (with RDA, 2016): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241

 

 

 CODATA Paris

 

The Value of Open Data Sharing (for GEO, 2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.33830

 

 

 

The Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World (for ICSU, 2015) https://council.science/publications/open-data-in-a-big-data-world/

 

 

 

 

Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies (for Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation, 2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.27872

 

 

 CODATA Paris