This initiative and activity may be of interest to subscribers to the CODATA International discussion list.

With very best wishes,

Simon.
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1) Call for Expressions of Interest to Host International Data Week 2018 - Deadline Extended to 24 March

2) Save the Date!  International CODATA 2017 Conference, “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science”: 8-13 October 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.  

3) The CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830 summarises some of CODATA's most important activities over the last year of so.
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On 7 Mar 2017, at 02:01, [log in to unmask] wrote:

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Dear Colleagues,

Society is being transformed through the connection of data - from databases, archives, sensors and models - to analytics and other services. Working at the boundaries of computational and environmental sciences, breakthroughs in enviro-informatics multiply the convergence already underway in natural sciences. The web paradigm of Linked Data promises a breakthrough in linked, science-ready information from persistent sources. However, environmental data is scattered across many organizations in formal and informal ways, expressed using many standards, and also frequently depending on physical samples taken from the real world.

To address these challenges, CSIRO is hosting a symposium "Linking Environmental Data and Samples" (29 May - 03 June 2017, Canberra, AUS).
https://csiro-enviro-informatics.github.io/environmental-data-symposium-2017.

The symposium will bring together leading researchers in earth and  environmental informatics, to establish the current state of the art in  environmental science data publication and its use of modern web  principles. The focus is on linking data, with a particular interest in  the integration of physical samples with datasets based on these.

Key topics include:

- Science drivers for linking environmental data and samples
- Community specific solutions (Marine geoscience and oceanography, Biodiversity, Earth Observation, Mineral Exploration)
- Technical challenges in linked data and persistent identification
- Social and organisational impacts
- Elements of Open Science

The design of the symposium will build on the experience of the highly successful Earth Science Information Partnership (ESIP) series that has been running for more than two decades in North America.

More information at https://csiro-enviro-informatics.github.io/environmental-data-symposium-2017

Regards,

Jens Klump


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Dr Jens Klump
Science Leader Earth Science Informatics
Geoscience Analytics Team Leader
Mineral Resources
CSIRO

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