CODATA RDMT – Call for suggested additional terms now open; deadline 10 December 2026
The CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/685 gathers the key terms needed for a common understanding of the research data management domain. The RDMT is revised by the CODATA RDM Terminology Working Group, shared for...
Affiliated Bodies at the ISC Midterm Membership Meeting
Richard Hartshorn is CODATA Vice-President, and Professor of Chemistry in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He was Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...
CDIF-4-XAS Project Final Results and Recommendations
The CDIF-4-XAS project has released its final report outlining results and recommendations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24057167 The CDIF-4-XAS project addresses the critical challenge of data interoperability within X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS). While XAS...
CDIF4EOSC Response to the EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force Report ‘Practical Semantic Interoperability Recommendations for the EOSC Federation’
Gregory, A., & Hodson, S. (2026). CDIF4EOSC Response to the EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force Report 'Practical Semantic Interoperability Recommendations for the EOSC Federation’ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23974722 Writing on behalf of the CDIF4EOSC...
CDIF Releases Initial Converters for Domain Standards
Resources for the Cross Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) have just been expanded to include a series of converters for metadata encoded in a range of domain standards. These converters are developed in Python, and provide transformations both to and from the...
Getting off at the right station: reflections on AI readiness
Cyrus Walther is a doctoral student in the Astroparticle Physics Group at TU Dortmund University; nominated by IUPAP, he has served on the CODATA Executive Committee since 2023. He contributes actively to CODATA’s Early Career Group, CODATA Connect, and to the Task...
A Better Future for Science? Reflections from Beijing
Dr. Pragya Chaube is Assistant Professor at the UPES University, India. She is a co-chair of the CODATA Connect Early Career Network and co-founder Open Science South Asia Network (OSSAN). Pragya’s participation in the International Science Council’s (ISC) Midterm...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: October 2026 Edition
From local resilience to systemic risk governance Households can prepare for floods, but they cannot decide where development happens upstream, how regional power networks are protected, or whether capital keeps flowing into hazard-prone land. Writing for...
Strong demand for crisis data checklists but few in place, UNESCO and CODATA survey finds
Read the full article on the UNESCO Website. Global survey report on crisis data policies facilitated by open science Strong demand for crisis data checklists but few in place, UNESCO and CODATA survey finds Most organisations working on disasters, crises and...
FAIR Digital Objects Forum Upcoming Webinars
The FAIR Digital Objects Forum is organising a series of webinars exploring various aspects of the endeavour to FDOs as a unified, technology-independent framework for representing and managing digital and physical resources in a machine-actionable manner. In the...