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Call for Applications: Data Science Training at the Arctic Data Center - deadline June 19, 2017
The Arctic Data Center is pleased to announce that a call for applications to the summer Data Science Training for Arctic Researchers is now open.
All data enthusiasts: data scientists and practitioners, students, researchers, representatives from both private and public sector, that work to improve the aquaculture, fisheries, marine and environmental management, or develop ICT solutions for environmental and socio economics are invited to join the datathon co-organised by the RDA-Europe and BlueBRIDGE from June 15 to 16, 2017, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Science Policy Experts Report: Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World
The high level expert group of Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) on 15th May presented its report 'Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World' to Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
An Interview with Dr. Fran Berman: "The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics"
Dr. Fran Berman, RDA/US Chair, was recently interviewed by Kaveh Waddel for a piece titled "The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics" featured in the The Atlantic. Her conversation with him discussed topics including ethical design, and how to balance individual privacy with the potential for social good of connected devices that share data with one another. Read the article at https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/internet-of-things-ethics/524802/.
The joint RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG enjoyed a busy and productive RDA 9th Plenary. The aim of the WG is to firstly define guidelines to link information on databases, content standards and journal and funder data policies and then secondly, to implement them in the existing BioSharing portal (https://www.biosharing.org). The BioSharing WG is now at the end of its 18 month lifespan and as such has produced a set of recommendations.
A lively discussion has taken place during the Health Data Interest Group meeting, held at Barcelona RDA P9, within a session dedicated to Meaningful Health Data for Research and for Industry.
Two initial topics were defined: How to define anonymisation and pseudonymisation of Health Data, and Requirements of Open Science, respectively introduced by Rocco Panetta (Secretary General of Italian Compliance Forum) and Becca Wilson (Bristol University, UK).
RDA Plenary 9 Communication & Coordination activity summary
The RDA Secretariat has heard from a number of different parts of the organization that, with more groups being endorsed every day, it is getting harder and harder to keep up with what is happening in RDA. This means that groups don’t always know who they should be connecting with across the organization, there is increasing risk of duplicate effort across groups, and newcomers are struggling to figure out where to jump in.
What has worked in Plenary sessions? - Have your say!
Based on suggestions from the RDA Community Coordination activity at Plenary 9, the RDA Secretariat would like to collect examples of tools and activities that you have seen work well in Plenary breakout sessions, either at Plenary 9, or in earlier Plenaries. We are interested in hearing about things such as:
RDA/US Data Share Early Career Program Announces 2017 Fellowship Awards
RDA/US Data Share, an early career engagement program for the Research Data Alliance/US is pleased to announce its selection of the 2017 cohort of Fellows. The Data Share program, formed in 2015 through grant funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, selects Fellows to engage with, study and contribute to the RDA. The program aims at strengthening fellows’ careers and their institutions in data science and data sharing through engagement with the large, international community of RDA.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data IG - lift-off meeting at the 9th RDA Plenary
At Plenary 9, the sUAS data IG had it’s official kick off meeting!