Reimagining Data Futures – Reflections on Brisbane IDW: The CODATA International Data Policy Committee
Blog Post by Gitanjali Yadav, India The hum of conversation this week at the sprawling and impressive Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre carried a familiar cadence; the sound of the global data community converging once again under the banner of International...
When CARE Meets Reality (Reflections on Indigenous Data Governance at IDW 2025)
Blog Post by Gitanjali Yadav, India The opening plenary on CAREful Indigenous Data Governance at the International Data Week 2025 in Brisbane promised to be one of the most important conversations of the week long biennial data conference, and it delivered! The...
Mapping X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Standards to CDIF
The purpose of the CDIF-4-XAS project is to demonstrate that the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) can function as a practical set of recommendations for an interoperability layer that will facilitate the aggregation and integration of XAS data for...
Linking variable description to machine-ready datasets
There is currently a lot of interest in how we maximise increase the effectiveness of datasets for AI training and fine-tuning through metadata. This led to the development of the ML Croissant metadata specification, “an open community-built standardized metadata...
TOMORROW: AuScope Seminar on WorldFAIR+ and CDIF
Join us online for a special AuScope seminar to discuss WorldFAIR+ and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT / 00:00-01:00 UTC Register here: https://bit.ly/AuScope-Seminar-CDIF-WorldFAIRplus Speakers: Rebecca...
CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) announce the updated 2025 CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT)
Paris, October 2025. CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the updated CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) 2025. The Terminology is open to the public and free to use via the ARDC’s Research...
From launch to action: operationalising UNESCO’s open science data policies guidance for crises
With the aim of contributing to the development of data policy pathways for crisis preparedness, response, and recovery, three companion resources on ‘Developing data policies for times of crisis facilitated by open science’ were launched on 4 June 2025 at UNESCO...
Read Now – September 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Enhancing Multiscale Simulation Data Management with Domain Ontologies and an ELN: Addressing Challenges and Implementing Strategies Author: Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Michael Selzer URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-028 Title: Robust Machine Learning Algorithmic...
Register Now: Webinar – Harnessing Ocean Data for Coastal Resilience and Blue Economies
Date: 3rd October 2025 Time: 9:00 am to 9:45 am (CET) Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4XviYgkeQmu8XNGlxkijHQ Webinar Description: Oceans are the planet’s largest climate regulator, a source of livelihood for billions, and home to rich...
Call for Papers, Posters & Lightning Talks – FDO Conference 2026
FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) are autonomous information units that virtually bind all information in a machine-actionable way that is required to make data FAIR, including various kinds of metadata and globally unique and resolvable persistent identifiers (PIDs). FDOs...