The CODATA Working Group on Data Ethics (now a Task Group), has produced three policy briefings on important topics in relation to data ethics. At least two more are in the pipeline. The policy briefings respond to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. They...
WG Member’s Name Title & Organisation Professor Virginia Murray (Chair) Co-chair, Disaster Loss Data (DATA), Integrated Research in Disaster Risk (IRDR); Co-chair, Thematic Platform for Health EDRM Research Network, World Health Organization (WHO); and Head,...
In addition to the Toolkit elements, the project is publishing a special collection of the Data Science Journal ‘Data and AI policy, systems, and tools for times of crisis’ comprising the following papers: Zhang, L, Ekmekci, PE, Murray, V, Basbug Erkan, B, Crawley,...
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards Open Science. It sets out the fundamental principles of human rights and ethics that define the leading role UNESCO has in ensuring...
Data Policy for Times of Crisis Facilitated by Open Science A Global Project on Developing Guidance, a Checklist, and a Factsheet as Contributions to the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit (UNESCO-CODATA DPTC) Download and use the UNESCO-CODATA Data Policies for Times of...
Dangerous humid heat in southern West Africa about 4°C hotter due to climate change The southern coastal zone of Western Africa – also called the Guinea zone – experienced abnormal early season heat in February 2024. A combination of high temperatures and relatively...
Title: Insights on Sustainability of Earth Science Data Infrastructure Projects Author: Arika Virapongse, James Gallagher, Basil Tikoff URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-014 Title:An Unsupervised Learning Approach to Evaluate Questionnaire Data—What One Can Learn...
WorldFAIR — the flagship project of the CODATA Decadal Programme, “Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges" — has had a busy start to 2024. In the first three months of the year, we have published eight new reports: for agricultural biodiversity, chemistry,...
The Ethical Data Initiative at the Technical University of Munich is seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral researchers who share a deep interest in exploring educational, social, and governance issues that arise when working with data. The positions, under the...
Message sent on behalf of Meredith Goins, Executive Director, WDS International Program Office. We're pleased to announce that the World Data System seeks to fill two vacant positions on our esteemed Scientific Committee. The WDS-SC is the governing body of WDS, and...