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The Draft Charter of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has been published "EOSC Task Force FAIR Metrics and Data Quality Charter" . The Task Force (TF) FAIR Metrics and Data Quality oversees the implementation of FAIR metrics for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), testing them with research communities. More general aspects of data quality have been also considered.

The 13th Annual European DDI User Conference "EDDI21" will be held as a virtual meeting from November 30th to December 1st, 2021. EDDI21 is organized jointly by Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and International Data Service Center at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IDSC of IZA). The DDI Alliance kindly supports EDDI21. Presentations, …

The first document of the FAIR4Rs working group for community review across RDA, FORCE11 and the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) has been published. This document presents the FAIR principles for Research Software. It is available for community input via RDA. To improve the FAIRness of research software, the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group has sought to understand how to …

EU DataViz is an international conference on open data and data visualisation addressing the needs of the public sector across the EU. It is organised by the Publications Office of the European Union as part of the EU Open Data Days. The conference is funded by ISA2 programme of the European Union. This free online conference on 23 and 24  November 2021 will provide the opportunity to share …

The annual Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) conference will be held as a virtually event from 29th November to 3rd December 2021. SWIB focuses on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at …

CODATA offers webinars on a variety of topics relating to the following activities: data policy, data science and capacity mobilising in relation to data. The webinar „What DDI Can Do for You!“ is aimed at audiences both inside and external to the DDI community. It highlights where metadata is needed in terms of the FAIR principles and explains how different DDI products can help to support the …

The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its implementation phase (2021-2027). The EOSC Symposium 2021 "Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud“, taking place as a virtually event, provides a key engagement opportunity for the EOSC community. Building on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) , the EOSC Association will establish a number of Advisory …

re3data describes about 2600 research data repositories from all disciplines based on the re3data Metadata Schema. The current version 3.0 of the schema was released in 2015. Since then, the repository landscape and the requirements and expectations for a registry of research data repositories have shifted. Within the project re3data COREF , these changes will be addressed and the re3data …

Der Schwerpunkt des online Vortrags am Mittwoch, 02. Juni 2021 | 13:00 – 14:00 Uhr, liegt auf der Publikation von personenbezogenen Forschungsdaten und welche Schritte unternommen werden müssen, um dies datenschutzkonform umzusetzen. Dazu gehören die Kenntnis der gesetzlichen Grundlagen, die informierte Einwilligung und das Anonymisieren von Daten. Frauke Ziedorn, Informationswirtin und Beraterin …

The present bibliography provides an overview of the literature for the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Since the first OECD data release in 2014, the number of publications has constantly increased. The bibliography includes 793 publications and 75 data sets (and 14 technical documents). Maehler, D. B., Jakowatz, S., & Konradt, I. (2021). PIAAC …