An initiative building on the activities of the 2023-2025 CODATA Task Group Data-driven social change towards a society promoting cognitively healthy aging is currently gathering expert perspectives on cognitively healthy aging — the ability to maintain cognitive...

This summer marks a remarkable milestone as CESSDA celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion, we are thrilled to invite you to the conference "Future-Ready Social Science: Data, Policy, and Impact," taking place from 15–18 June 2026 in Bergen, Norway. We...

  Standard Registration deadline for the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026 is fast approaching. Be sure to secure your spot by 15 April to join the DCM2026 at the World Trade Center in Barcelona from 12–15 May. You can register via the following link: Register...

Prof. Dr. B. Burcak Basbug, Professor of Statistics and Disaster Science, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkiye, co-chair of the CODATA International Data Policy Committee and of the UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy for Times of Crisis initiative, is speaking in a...

Title: Publishing Fine-grained Standardized Metadata – Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers Author: Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen, Tobias Koberg, Mihaela Tudose URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-013 Title: Building Responsible and...

How do organizations handle data in crises? A global survey explores policy implementation aligned with open science. Participate in the survey: https://surveys.unesco.org/UNESCO-CODATA-DPTC The questionnaire takes approximately 10 – 15 minutes to complete. The...

Our friends at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are pleased to share a draft version of their new Carbon Footprint Toolkit<https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cn1XkuxH_i7j5qJZwhjzsKjidS562ivRBJcpA3RFxQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.o6jb86yldgs2>, now available...

Bapon Fakhruddin, PhD., Climate Investment Principal, Green Climate Fund, Republic of Korea & Chair, CODATA TG FAIR DRR, France has published a piece in ’The Water Diplomat’. Everyone now knows that the climate crisis is a water crisis. As global temperatures...

At IDW2025, a group of speakers from around the world spoke on ‘Bridging Data Gaps with Citizen Science for People and Policy'. Although communities have long been studied within research and had data collected about them, there is growing recognition that communities...

Globally, communities are monitoring air quality, tracking biodiversity, and mapping disease vectors to fill critical gaps where official monitoring networks fall short. The data collected is powerful, the ambition is real, but the integration into traditional...