The Asia Pacific Advance Network (APAN) and the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) have formalised a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to underline their commitment to leveraging scientific...
By Bylhah Mugotitsa, Agnes Kiragga, Steve Cygu and Miranda Barasa, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). If there was ever a place where coffee, curiosity, and code met perfectly, it was International Data Week 2025 in Brisbane. You could feel the...
Mission and objectives Among all components of Open Science, the sharing of research resources, such as large-scale data, compute, network, software, algorithms and others across domains and regions ignite more possibilities for scientific discovery but come with...
Mission and objectives The OT-ViRARe Task Group aims to co-develop a new generation of open, FAIR-aligned, and visitation-enabled tools for responsible research assessment, with particular emphasis on equitable adoption across the Global South. By extending CODATA’s...
Mission and objectives The mission of the “Research Data Quality Management Across the Data Lifecycle” Task Group is to establish a conceptual and practical model for data quality and provide recommendations for assessing it across scientific domains to ensure...
Mission and objectives Based upon a rapid growth in data acquisition rates reaching the petabyte scale the world experiences an intense demand in data curation capacities. Resources that are needed to build and maintain these capacities are often not sustainable,...
Lili Zhang, Director of the Global Open Science Cloud International Programme Office (GOSC IPO), Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences On my first day in Brisbane for SciDataCon and International Data Week (IDW) 2025, I was captivated by...
As part of the EOSC EDEN project, we are delighted to invite you to a free webinar marking the first public release of the 30 Core Preservation Processes (CPPs), a set of essential processes that every trustworthy archive should perform. Developed by a team of digital...
Reflections on the ECR-organized session ‘Perspectives on Data Repositories across Disciplines, Geographies, and Cultures’ from CODATA Connect leads Pragya Chaube, Louis Mapatagane, and Cyrus Walther. At International Data Week 2025, the Early Career Researcher (ECR)...
Reflections on Legal and Organisational Interoperability at IDW2025 from Matti Heikkurinen, LOI Lead and Project Portfolio Manager, CODATA I’ll start with a confession: until quite recently, whenever I heard the word “interoperability”, I thought of the ability of any...