CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, has published his message to the CODATA community in which he lays out CODATA's strategic vision and priorities over the next four years. Geoffrey writes: Friends and colleagues, I am honoured to follow Professor Guo Huadong as...
On Wednesday 10 June, CODATA President Geoffrey Boulton will give a public lecture at the University of Pretoria on 'Open Data, Big Data and the Future of Science'. The lecture will be preceded by a brief introduction to ICSU, the International Council of Science,...
Shiva Khanal - a Research Officer with the Department of Forest Research and Survey in Nepal and one of the international scholars sponsored by CODATA to attend the ISI-CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data - has created word clouds of that event and...
The ICPSR Summer Program is offering a five-day workshop on Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use, July 27-31, 2015. This workshop is for individuals interested or actively engaged in the curation and management of research data for sharing and reuse,...
The 2015 Dryad Community Meeting will be taking place at 8:30am-4:00pm on 27 May in Washington, DC at the American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009. The Dryad Community Meeting is an annual event for researchers, journal editors,...
See the CODATA Blog for a new post from Alex de Sherbinin, Chair, CODATA Task Group on Global Roads Data Development and Associate Director for Science Applications, CIESIN, Columbia University who spoke recently on about Big Data, using the Sustainable Development...
The CODATA-VAMAS Working Group on Nanomaterials has released version 1.0 of the Uniform Description System for Materials on the Nanoscale (UDS). This document, including a downloadable version and background information, is publically available...
CODATA, the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology, the ICSU World Data System and the Research Data Alliance today announce the completion of a Memorandum of Understanding which makes formal their collaboration. Coordination of effort is important since...
CODATA and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) - and other partners - will convene an International Training Workshop on Big Data. This will continue the emerging series of International Training Workshops which CODATA is seeking to establish with a variety of...
At the CODATA General Assembly in New Delhi, Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) was welcomed as a new National Member of CODATA. See the news story on the RDNL website: CODATA focuses on improving the quality, reliability, management and accessibility of scientific...