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Read Now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: November and December 2025 Edition
Glaciers to Farms (G2F) Regional Program: Advancing Climate Resilience & Sustainable Development in Central and West Asia Glacier systems in the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges are retreating rapidly; projections indicate over 50 per cent of glacier volume could be...
Bridging Two Worlds: Reflections from the IDW2025 Panel on Research Data and Data Science
At IDW2025, a group of speakers from around the globe gathered to address a long-standing problem: although data is the common currency of both research data management and data science, the two communities often work in parallel worlds—each with its own conferences,...
Read Now – November 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Digital Transformation in Materials Science: A User Journey of Nanoindentation, Image Analysis and Simulations Author: Hanna Tsybenko, Sarath Menon, Fei Chen, Abril Azocar Guzman, Katharina Grünwald, Steffen Brinckmann, Tilmann Hickel, Tim Dahmen, Volker...
Webinar: Asia-Pacific: Advancing FAIR data in Advanced Networks
APAN and CODATA organised a webinar on 26th November to showcase the impact of the MoU between the two organisations announced on 20th November. This webinar will present the goals and activities of the two organisations and illustrate approaches to realising...
APAN and CODATA Join Forces to Promote Science, Research Data and Network-enabled Research to Address Global Challenges
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...
Data Without Borders: Reflections from International Data Week 2025, Brisbane
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...
Connections for a Sustainable Open-Science Future
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...
Webinar Invitation: Introduction to the Core Preservation Processes, as developed by the EOSC EDEN project
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...
Building Participatory Data Infrastructures Across Disciplines and Geographies
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)...
Ode to LOI (Legal and Organisational Interoperability) – Data moves at the speed of trust
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...