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Demonstrating the value of the organization’s ORCID integration just got simpler. ORCID is delighted to announce the launch of some long-awaited improvements to member reporting. ORCID Member Reports are now on-demand and contain insightful data about how integrations are being used, such as how many researchers have connected their iDs to an integration, and how many records have been updated …

FAIR-Aware is an online tool which helps researchers and data managers assess how much they know about the requirements for making datasets findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) before uploading them into a data repository. The tool comprises 10 questions which extend users' understanding of the FAIR principles as they work through the questionnaire. The tool is available in …

The Data Center for the Humanities (DCH), Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Institut für Digital Humanities (IDH) are pleased to announce the conference FORGE 2021. It will take place online. The conference language will be in German. FORGE is a series of events organized by the AG Datenzentren of the Association of Digital Humanities in the German-speaking World ( DHd ). The …

The productive diversity of data types in interdisciplinary and multimethod educational research have bred a strong heterogeneity in data description. This is particularly detrimental to research data retrievability, which makes it difficult to reuse. One goal of the German Network of Educational Research Data (VerbundFDB) is to increase the data visibility via the VerbundFDB portal and to make …

The Digital Science released the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), an open database of unique research-related organisation identifiers for public use by the research community, in 2015. In 2019, the Research Organization Registry (ROR), was founded as a community-driven initiative, mirroring the GRID database. Digital Science has decided to pass on the torch to ROR and retire GRID from …

The ORCID DE project will host an online seminar titled "Research Organization Registry (ROR): benefits and advantages of an open organization ID" ("ROR: Nutzen und Vorteile einer offenen Organisations-ID") on August 18, 2021, from 10 to 11 am. The seminar will focus on ROR-ID, an open and community-driven identifier for scientific organizations. The seminar will be conducted in German using Zoom …

The webinar "Importance of Data cleaning" will host by CODATA on August 5th, 2021 at 10 am (UTC). Data cleaning is one of the most important tasks you would have to do as a data science professional. Incorrect or inconsistent data can create a number of problems which lead to the drawing of false conclusions. Therefore, data cleaning can be an important element in data analysis situations. Data …

PIAAC, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, is an international large-scale study that assesses key cognitive skills of the adult population in more than 40 countries. The video tutorial " PIAAC Data Analysis in Stata: A practical guide " provides practical guidance on how to conduct PIAAC data analysis in Stata. This tutorial provides several example analyses …

GESIS makes with ZIS , the Open Access repository for measurement instruments, more than 290 validated survey instruments (i.e., scales) available to the research community. All scales are citable by a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and available free of charge for non-commercial research purposes. Currently, the ZIS team seeks scales that are suitable for investigating research questions around …

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 2021 is hosted virtually by the ICTP and supported by the FAIRsFAIR Project. This school provides Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Professionals with the necessary set of foundational Data Science skills to enable them to analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner for the 21st century. Content will be provided as video lectures as …