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CODATA/RDA Schools for Research Data Science: Alumni Survey 2020
This survey is for alumni from schools ran between 2016 and 2019. Alumni from 2020 schools will be contacted separately. Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020; followed by the CODATA General Assembly, 24 October 2020. Where: Paris, France Venue: TBC The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will provide a forum for advancing international and cross-domain convergence around FAIR. The event will bring together a global data community with an interest in combining data across domains for a host of research issues - including major global challenges, such as those relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. Outcomes will directly link to the CODATA Decadal Programme 'Data for the Planet: making data work for cross-domain grand challenges’ and to the developments of GO FAIR community towards the Internet of FAIR data and services. Participation is open to ALL researchers and data experts, particularly those with an interest in participating in the CODATA Decadal Programme and in the GO FAIR Community. There will be a mechanism for participants to organise workshop sessions: for example, GO FAIR INs, CODATA TGs and other groups are encouraged to participate and to organise sessions. The two-day Symposium will be followed on 24 October by the CODATA General Assembly which will see the election of new Officers, Executive Committee and Task Groups. More information about the event and means of participation will follow in due course. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Paris. Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: February 2020 Edition
Bushfire crisis: More than half of all Australians found to have been directly affected How AI is battling the coronavirus outbreak Philippines lowers Taal Volcano alerts as eruptions wane Thailand: Government sets up water crisis centre Major boost for disaster risk management in Vanuatu Deep data helps cities prepare for disasters Read the full Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter January 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Announcement for the FAIR Convergence Symposium in October 2020
International FAIR Convergence Symposium and CODATA General Assembly, 22-24 October 2020 Where: Paris, France Venue: TBC The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will provide a forum for advancing international and cross-domain convergence around FAIR. The event will bring together a global data community with an interest in combining data across domains for a host of research issues - including major global challenges, such as those relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. Outcomes will directly link to the CODATA Decadal Programme 'Data for the Planet: making data work for cross-domain grand challenges’ and to the developments of GO FAIR community towards the Internet of FAIR data and services. Participation is open to ALL researchers and data experts, particularly those with an interest in participating in the CODATA Decadal Programme and in the GO FAIR Community. There will be a mechanism for participants to organise workshop sessions: for example, GO FAIR INs, CODATA TGs and other groups are encouraged to participate and to organise sessions. The two-day Symposium will be followed on 24 October by the CODATA General Assembly which will see the election of new Officers, Executive Committee and Task Groups. More information about the event and means of participation will follow in due course. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Paris.
Welcome to the Alumni Survey
More than half of all Australians have been directly affected by the summer’s bushfire crisis, including millions suffering health effects, according to a new survey from the Australia Institute.
AI helped spot an early warning about the outbreak, and researchers have used flight traveller data to figure out where the novel coronavirus could pop up next.
The alert was reduced to 3 from 4 out of a 5 rating-scale, says the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The agency has cautioned the downgrade “should not be interpreted that unrest has ceased or that the threat of a hazardous eruption has disappeared.”
With Thailand facing a drought disaster, the government has set up a special command centre chaired by the Prime Minister, to handle the crisis and assist affected villages.
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a contingent US$10 million in support to Vanuatu that will strengthen the island nation’s resilience to disasters, support climate adaption, and help manage its debt.
Disaster response experts have begun utilising non-traditional data sources to assist with planning including high-resolution images from satellites and drones, localised temperature and seismic intelligence from microsensors, and open data repositories such as social media activity to street maps from thousands of volunteer digital cartographers.
Title: Data Curation Profiling to Assess Data Management Training Needs and Practices to Inform a Toolkit
Author: Bradley Bishop, Hannah Gunderman, Rowena Davis, Tina Lee, Rebecca Howard, Robert Samors, Fiona Murphy, Judit Ungvari
URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-004
Title: Data Without Software Are Just Numbers
Author: James Harold Davenport , James Grant, Catherine Mary Jones
URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-003
Title: Knowledge Grid: An Intelligent System for Collaboration and Knowledge Management in Nigerian Universities
Author: Boluwaji A. Akinnuwesi , Adedoyin Odumabo, Benjamin S. Aribisala
URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-002
Title: A Discussion of Value Metrics for Data Repositories in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Author: Cynthia Parr, Corinna Gries, Margaret O'Brien, Robert R. Downs, Ruth Duerr, Rebecca Koskela, Philip Tarrant, Keith E. Maull, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Shelley Stall
URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-001
Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020; followed by the CODATA General Assembly, 24 October 2020.