[Simon Hodson]

ONE WEEK TO GO! The deadline of 22 December is approaching for abstract submissions for papers to be presented at the Göttingen-CODATA Symposium 2018 on ‘the critical role of university research data management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’.
The event will be a timely and major appraisal of progress in institutional endeavours to address the challenge of improving research data management for the benefit of science. The symposium will feature invited speakers of international renown as well as papers from institutions from around the world. The symposium themes are designed to ensure that the event will allow the community to appraise progress and share knowledge in key areas of institutional RDM activity: http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018_Goettingen_RDM/symposium-th…
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit them to a special collection of the Data Science Journal https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/
Topic of the Symposium: ‘The critical role of university RDM infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’
All over the world universities and libraries have started the task of developing research data services. Ideally such initiatives aim to result in a complete service portfolio covering the entire research lifecycle: support in writing proposals and data management plans, repository infrastructures for the storage of data, support in publishing data, assignment of persistent identifiers, lecturing in data management, etc. This broad scope means that such services are often seen as requiring a joint effort from from university, library, IT centre, faculties and other stakeholders.
Nowhere in the world has such a complete support scenario been perfected. It is timely for actors in the various dimensions of such initiatives internationally to share their practical experiences, research and insights.
Please note the range of themes listed below and at http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018-Goettingen-RDM/symposium-th…
Important Points About Abstract Submissions
Proposals for long papers should be 1200-2000 words.
Proposals for short papers should be 300-600 words.
When submitting a proposal the author should choose the session corresponding to the theme for which the abstract is intended.
The programme committee hopes to inform successful papers by mid-January 2018.
Key Dates
Deadline for abstracts: 22 December 2017
Announcement of accepted abstracts and outline programme: mid January 2018
Symposium: 18-20 March 2018
Structure of the Symposium
Sunday 18 March, icebreaker event and keynote in the evening 17.00-19.00
Monday 19 March, full day of symposium, 09.00-18.00
Tuesday 20 March, half day of symposium, 09.00-14.00
For more: http://www.codata.org/news/226/62/Call-for-Papers-for-Goettingen-CODATA-…
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Call for Papers, Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018, deadline 22 December 2017 , Göttingen, Germany, 18-20 March 2018.
Call for Session Proposals, SciDataCon 2018 , deadline 2 February 2018: SciDataCon 2018 is an integrated part of International Data Week 2018 , 5-8 November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana.
OECD Global Science Forum and CODATA Report on Business Models for Sustainable Research Data Repositories http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/302b12bb-en
What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2017 (Second Edition) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034217
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