About Why Join WDS? Strategic Plan 2014–2018 Implementation Plan 2016–2017 Scientific Committee WDS Workspace Constitution & Bylaws Constitution Bylaws International Programme Office Community Membership Regular Members Network Members Partner Members Associate Members Template Agreement WDS Members Map Working Groups Coordination and Support of International Research Data Networks Publishing Data Citizen Science Past Working Groups Webinars Webinar #11: IUPHAR Web Resources – Simplifying Complexity for Medicine and Education Webinar #10: An Introduction to the DSA–WDS Common Requirements Webinar #9: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Who is in Charge of Data Quality? Webinar #8: Crowdsourcing Data and Quality Control—The Experience of OpenStreetMap Webinar #7: Historical Seismograms: Preserving an Endangered Species (November 2015) Webinar #6: Web-Centric Solutions for Web-Based Scholarship (July 2015) Webinar #5: BIGDATA, littledata and EvErYtHiNg in Between (June 2015) Webinar #4: Combining High Performance Computing with High Performance Data to enable Data Intensive Science (April 2015) Webinar #3: RDA–WDS Data Publishing Webinar for Data Repositories and Services (October 2015) Webinar #2: RDA-WDS Data Publishing Webinar for STM (May 2015) Webinar #1: The PREPARDE Project (October 2014) WDS Members' Forum 2016 Members' Forum 2014 Members' Forum SciDataCon Conference SciDataCon 2016: Advancing the Frontiers of Data in Research SciDataCon 2014: International Conference on Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability Data Stewardship Award 2013 Award Winner 2014 Award Winner 2015 Award Winner 2016 Award Winner 2017 Award Winner Promotion Conference presentations Why join ICSU-WDS? ICSU-WDS Flyer (February 2016) ICSU-WDS Poster (December 2014) ICSU-WDS Briefing Paper: Global Data For Global Science (May 2013) Developing the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) Data and Services Data Sharing Principles Certification Accreditation of WDS Regular Members Accreditation of WDS Network Members Network Member Catalogue of Criteria Training Resources Guide Training Resources Guide - WDS Members.pdf Training Resources Guide - Others.pdf Data Portal Knowledge Network TypicalNetworkElements.png ExistingInitiatives.png Publications Meeting Reports 7th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee 8th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #10 9th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #11 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #12 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #13 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #14 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #15 10th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #16 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #17 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #18 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #19 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #20 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #21 11th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #22 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #23 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #24 WDS Scientific Committee 2012–2015 Teleconference #25 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #1 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #2 12th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #3 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #4 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #5 13th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #6 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #7 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #8 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #9 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #10 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #11 14th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #12 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #13 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #14 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #15 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #16 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #17 15th Meeting of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #18 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #19 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #20 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #21 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #22 WDS Scientific Committee 2015–2018 Teleconference #23 Annual Reports Annual Report 2012–13 Annual Report 2013–14 Annual Report 2014–15 Annual Report 2015–16 Conference Proceedings First WDS Conference: Global Data for Global Science Highlights of the 2013 International Forum on 'Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems' Strategic Plans Strategic Plan 2014–2018 Members' Reports / Posters Biennial Reports 2013–2014 Poster Presentations 2015–2016 News News Archive Seventh WDS Scientific Committee Meeting ICSU-WDS Recognized as Participating Organization in GEO Claudia Emerson Appointed onto WDS-SC WDS Tackles IPY Data Challenges ICSU Appoints New WDS Scientific Committee International Programme Office Completes Staffing CDS Celebrates 40-year Anniversary GEO-IX Plenary: Meeting of Data Sharing Working Group WDS Co-organizes Breakout Session at Future Earth Workshop Second WDS Scientific Committee Meeting First WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Third WDS Scientific Committee Meeting (+ WDS-sponsored Sessions at CODATA 2010) Fourth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Data Challenges for Global Sustainability First ICSU World Data System Conference: 'Global Data for Global Science' Fifth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting WDS International Programme Office Inauguration in Tokyo Sharing and Stewardship of Scientific Data for Improved Decision Making and Sustainable Development: Why Share Data Fully and Openly? Sixth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting New WDS Members ICSU-WDS Becomes Associate Member of WorldWideScience Alliance ICSU-WDS Establishes Two Working Groups IODE Adopts WDS-aligned QMF to Accredit its NODCs RDA–WDS Interest Groups Initiated WGMS Launch MetaData Browser Eighth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting WDS Members Provide Opinions on WDS-SC Action Items Community Building Through WDS Webinars Inaugural WDS Webinar WDS Annual Report 2012–13 Dr. Evgeny Kharin (6 Feb 1933 – 11 Sep 2013) IODE ODP Partnership Centre The IRIS REED Project ICSU-WDS Co-hosts International Polar Data Forum A Different Kind of Ecosystem RDA Second Plenary WDS Senior Advisor Visits Malaysia WDS-SC Chair Named AAAS Fellow International Polar Data Forum Communiqué Released Summary of WDS-SC Teleconferences Made Available ICSU-WDS Endorses Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles Kim Finney Leaves WDS-SC Opening of ISRIC World Soil Museum Sandra Harrison Appointed onto WDS-SC Tenth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Ninth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting ICSU-WDS Hold Session at ESIP Summer Meeting ICSU-WDS Co-sponsors CODATA Big Data Workshop ICSU-WDS Forges Links with DataCite and ICSTI Data Publishing Webinar Co-organized by ICSU-WDS Big Data for International Scientific Programmes: A Statement of Recommendations and Actions WDS Strategic Plan 2014–2018 Published Chinese WDS Members to Develop Common Clearing House SoilGrids1km System and Data Freely Available to the International Community Open Access and Misuse of Metrics SciDataCon 2014 Programme Now Available (+ Online Registration) WDS at the 31st General Assembly of ICSU Publishing Data Webinar DataCite and ICSU World Data System Announce Cooperation WDS Data Stewardship Awards 2013 & 2014 WDS Annual Report 2013–14 Selected Papers from International Polar Data Forum Published SciDataCon 2014: International Scientific Organizations Support Data Sharing for Sustainability 2014 WDS Members' Forum Held in New Delhi Eleventh WDS Scientific Committee Meeting IPO Staff Visit Indian Institute of Geomagnetism CODATA, RDA, & WDS Announce Partnership to Increase the Benefit of Research Data for Society WDS Session and Side-event at Our Common Future under Climate Change Twelfth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Webinar #4: Combining High Performance Computing with High Performance Data to enable Data Intensive Science Webinar #5: BIGDATA, littledata and EvErYtHiNg in Between New Chair and Scientific Committee Appointed for 2015–2018 Webinar #6: Web-Centric Solutions for Web-Based Scholarship (July 2015) Polar Data Forum II: Update ISRIC Release 250-m Resolution Soil Information System for Africa Annual Report 2014–15 WDS Session and Side-event at Our Common Future under Climate Change SCOSTEP–WDS Workshop on Global Data Activities for the Research of Solar–Terrestrial Variability LP DAAC Celebrates 25th Anniversary WDS Co-sponsors International Data Sharing Training Workshop Thirteenth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting SCOSTEP Becomes WDS Partner Member Renewed Hosting Agreement for WDS International Programme Office Webinar #7: Historical Seismograms: Preserving an Endangered Species (November 2015) WDS-related Presentations at AGU Fall Meeting 2015 WDS Members' Biennial Reports 2013–2014 Monthly Blog Posts by WDS-SC Call for abstracts: EGU 2016 New WDS Data Sharing Principles Yaxing Wei Wins 2015 WDS Data Stewardship Award Webinar #8: Crowdsourcing Data and Quality Control–The Experience of OpenStreetMap Announcement: International Data Week & SciDataCon 2016 Isabelle Gärtner-Roer and Alfredo Tolmasquim Appointed onto WDS-SC Communiqué of the Second Polar Data Forum WDS has Strong Presence at RDA 7th Plenary Meeting Fourteenth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting World Data System Marks Fifth Anniversary of International Programme Office Webinar #9: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Who is in Charge of Data Quality? RDA and ICSU-WDS Announce the Scholix Framework for Linking Data and Literature WDS-convened Session at AGU 2016 – Call for Papers (Deadline: 3 August) Boris Biskaborn Wins 2016 WDS Data Stewardship Award SciDataCon 2016 Programme Available! Webinar #10: An Introduction to the DSA–WDS Common Requirements WDS Programme Officer Gives Lecture at International Data Sharing Training Workshop 2016 Members' Forum Takes Place in Denver Fifteenth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Annual Report 2015–16 Universal and Unified Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements Webinar #11: IUPHAR Web Resources – Simplifying Complexity for Medicine and Education WDS Membership Reaches Landmark In Memoriam: Stan Ruttenberg, 1926–2017 New Standards and Certification Entity on the Horizon Workshop on Data Initiatives in Africa Concludes WDS Asia–Oceania Conference 2017: Registration & Abstraction Submission Open ORCID and WDS Partner to Support Reuse of Research Data OpenAIRE and WDS Announce Cooperation to Advance Open Science Call for Expressions of Interest to Host the WDS International Technology Office WDS Data Stewardship Award 2018: Call for Nominations Open! Calling all Early Career Researchers and Young Scientists Selected Papers from SCOSTEP–WDS Workshop Published in EPS Special Issue More Monthly Blog Posts by WDS-SC! CoreTrustSeal Certification Launched International Data Week 2018: The Digital Frontiers of Global Science Notice: Suspension of Applications for CoreTrustSeal Certification in November and December 2017 ICSU and ISSC Members Vote to Create New Merged Organization: The 'International Science Council' WDS Latin America & Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop Linhuan Wu Wins 2017 WDS Data Stewardship Award Introducing the WDS Training Resources Guide Coordination and Support of International Research Data Networks: Final Report Published World Data System Asia–Oceania Conference 2017 Seventeenth WDS Scientific Committee Meeting Change of Dates: International Data Week 2018 First CoreTrustSeal-certified WDS Regular Members in Biomedical Field! WDS-SC Opinion Piece: Data Management 101 for ECRs SciDataCon 2018 Call for Abstracts – WDS Sessions In Memoriam: Roger Barry WDS International Technology Office to Open in Canada WDS Blog Martha Maiden Presents on NASA's EOSDIS Another Take on NASA's Data System by Larry Smarr DOIs for NASA’s Earth Observing System Call for Papers: Open Journal of Earthquake Research Ecology: Essential Biodiversity Variables Climate Change: The Closing Door of Climate Targets U.S. Increases Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research Follow-up Articles to OSTP Policy Memorandum Interoperability Building Blocks GCMD/IDN 9.9.1 Software Release University of California’s Academic Senate Approves Open Access Policy Response to Science Magazine Open Access Publishing Hoax Nature to Launch 'Scientific Data' Journal The Rise of Open Access Public Release of NASA MEaSUREs Collections Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin No. 12 (2010–2011) End-to-end Data Solutions for Simulations at Extreme-scale GLDAS-2.0 Dataset Released by GES DISC Digital Curation Centre Launches DMPonline v.4 GCMD/IDN Static Keywords Release Announcement Open Access Updates Crowdsourcing a Living Map of World Health Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data AAAS Announces Science Advances NOAA Wants to Turn Its Ocean of Data into Jobs Open Science—More Than Sharing From Public to Planetary Health: A Manifesto New Hopes and Worries for Big Data and Health Care AGU to Make Journals Freely Available Online French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research to launch its first Open Data Portal Peer Review of Datasets: When, Why, and How John Orcutt Named Editor of New Open Access Journal: Earth and Space Science The Business Case for Open Data 'Depositing Shareable Survey Data' Guide Released NIH Issues Finalized Policy on Genomic Data Sharing New Release of Fluctuations of Glaciers Database Collaboration between ICSU-WDS and SCOSTEP CrossRef and DataCite Announce Initiative to Accelerate Adoption of DOIs for Data Publication and Citation CERN launches Open Data Portal to make initial LHC data public Nature Makes All Articles Free to View An Interesting Shift in Viewpoint on Health Data WGMS Publish Latest Glacier Mass Budget Results COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability LANCE AMSR2 Near Real-time Data Made Available NASA, USGS, and NSF Respond to White House OSTP Open Access Memo The DLI Service: An Open and Universal Data–Literature Interlinking Service Data from IPY Publications Now Available in PANGAEA Prof Borgman Asks 'If Data Sharing Is the Answer, What Is the Question?' Sharing Chinese Plant Trait Data A New Research Data Journal in the Netherlands WGMS Glacier App – Worldwide Glacier Information System To Go! How to Compromise Data Quality and Service of Data From the 'Dark Long Tail' Surveying User Satisfaction: The NASA DAAC Experience Yet Another Paradigm Shift… Contribution to Long-term Environmental Monitoring Identifying the Birth Defect Epidemic for Zika Virus: Where Are the Relevant Databases? A New Challenge: Building Multidisciplinary Distributed Research Data Infrastructures – EPOS - European Plate Observing System 2016 SciDataCon-China: The Third China Scientific Data Conference WorldWideScience Alliance: An International Partnership to Improve Access to Scientific and Technical Information and Research Data Essential Climate Variables – Global Glacier Change Data Indicate Continued Strong Ice Losses in 2015 and 2016 Finding Paleoclimate Data via the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology Just Got Easier From People to Pixels: Integrating Data Across the NASA DAACs Thoughts on Future Trust The What, Why, and How of Data Management Planning Ensuring Scientific Data Remain a Global Public Good DOIs and Licensing for Geomagnetic Data & Products: Current Status When the Shift from Analogue to Digital Data Occurred: A Case in Geomagnetic Data Services What Every Early Career Researcher Should Know about Research Data Management A Systematic IT Solution for Culture Collections Community to Explore and Utilize Preserved Microbial Resources Worldwide CASEarth: A Big Earth Data Project Launched by Chinese Academy of Sciences Announcements First Release of OCO-2 Level 2 Estimates of CO2 New Global Glacier Browser New Data Release: Global Annual PM2.5 Grids from MODIS, MISR and SeaWiFS AOD, v1 (1998–2012) New Hazards Mapper Tool from SEDAC LANCE AMSR2 Near Real-time Snow Products Available Beta Release of AppEEARS by LP DAAC Science International Launches Campaign for 'Open Data in a Big Data World' ASTER Data Made Freely Available by LP DAAC ISRIC – WDC Soils Launches Virtual Soil Museum & Updated Soil Property Database for the World PANGAEA Launches New Website and Functionalities Trusted Soil Data for Solving Global Issues! 2017 NAGARA Conference Session on Trusted Digital Repositories New Data Products from SEDAC ISRIC Elected to Host Soil Data Facility for Global Soil Partnership New SEDAC Dataset Global Glacier Change Bulletin No. 2 (2014–2015) CESSDA Expert Tour Guide for Data Management WDS-related International Science Council to Revamp World Data Centers Africa gets Continent-wide Data Centre A Lesson in Sharing International Science Community to Build a 'World Data System' Interview with Jean-Bernard Minster International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Challenges of Big Data in Science Atarrabi – A Workflow System for the Publication of Environmental Data A Maturity Model for Digital Data Centers Searching Inter-disciplinary Scientific Big Data Based on Latent Correlation Analysis A Different Kind of Ecosystem Open Research Data: From Vision to Practice The International Council for Science Global Data for Global Science: The new ICSU World Data System Collaboration between ICSU World Data System and SCOSTEP/VarSITI Integration of the Ukrainian science into the World Data System WDC – RSER Transfers Data Holdings to WDC – Meterology, Obninsk Press Releases Polar Date Catalogue is 100th Member of ICSU World Data System WDS and DSA Announce Unified Requirements for Core Certification of Trustworthy Data Repositories Global Data Organization Adopts Open Data Sharing Principles International Polar Data Forum Communiqué DataCite and ICSU-WDS Announce Cooperation International Scientific Organizations Support Data Sharing for Sustainability Denver, Colorado to Host International Data Week RDA and ICSU-WDS Announce the Scholix Framework for Linking Data and Literature ORCID and WDS Partner to support reuse of research data OpenAIRE and ICSU World Data System Announce Cooperation to Advance Open Science CoreTrustSeal Certification Launched Newsletters December 2017 July 2017 May 2017 November 2016 July 2016 April 2016 December 2015 October 2015 July 2015 April 2015 December 2014 October 2014 August 2014 April 2014 February 2014 November 2013 July 2013 April 2013 December 2012 October 2012 July 2012 Events WDS Events 8th Meeting of the Scientific Committee of the World Data System SciDataCon 2014 Joint RDA–WDS Sessions at RDA Third Plenary Meeting 10th Meeting of the World Data System Scientific Committee WDS Co-convened Session at EGU General Assembly 2014 CODATA Workshop on Big Data for International Scientific Programmes: Challenges and Opportunities ESIP Summer Meeting 2014 and WDS Town Hall WDS Members' Forum Publishing Data Webinar WDS co-convened Data Publication session at EGU 2015 12th Meeting of the WDS-SC WDS Sessions at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting Global Data Activities for the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Variability Parallel Session: Quality and Availability of Data for Global Sustainability WDS Webinar #4 Polar Data Forum II 'International Collaboration for Advancing Polar Data Access and Preservation' Side-event: Trusted Data Services to Support Climate Change Research Trusted Data Services to Support Climate Change Research WDS Webinar #7 – Historical Seismograms: Preserving an Endangered Species Webinar #8: Crowdsourcing Data and Quality Control – The Experience of OpenStreetMap SciDataCon 2016 – Advancing the Frontiers of Data in Research WDS Member's Forum International Data Week WDS-IPO 五周年記念式典・講演会 WDS-IPO 5th Anniversary International Co-design Workshop on Earth Observation in support of the Sustainable Development Goals – The case of urban areas in Asia Data Providers Workshop – GEO-XIII Plenary Emerging standards and best practices for data sharing, interoperability, use, and stewardship Our Common Future Under Climate Change WDS Webinar #11: IUPHAR Web Resources – Simplifying Complexity for Medicine and Education Data Initiatives in Africa – Opportunities and Challenges for Research and Sustainable Development EGU Town Hall: Trust is capital in research data repositories World Data System Asia–Oceania Conference 2017 Deadline: AGU 2017 abstracts submission Workshop On “Exchanging Information About Data-Literature Links” - An Adopters Meeting of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange WG AGU 2017: Trustworthy Data Repositories to Increase the Visibility and Value of Your Research Data WDS Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop WDS Members' Events 22nd Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXII) Opening of ISRIC World Soil Museum Curating and Managing Research Data for Reuse Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation DataCite 5th Annual Conference ICSTI 2014 Annual Conference RDA Fifth Plenary Meeting 23rd Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXIII) ESIP Summer Meeting 2015 ICPSR Summer School: Curating and Managing Research Data for Reuse ICSTI 1st Webinar NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference (+ ICSTI 2016 Annual Members’ Meeting & Workshops) Text and Data Mining: The Way Forward as Seen by the Library, Publisher and Researcher Communities (ICSTI/NISO 2nd Joint Webinar) ICSTI ITOC and TACC Workshops Webinar – FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories: Everybody wants to play FAIR, but how do we put the principles into practice? NASA Earthdata Webinar: Atmospheric Event-based Research using NASA GHRC Tools and Services ICSTI’s ITOC & TACC Workshops in Barcelona, Spain EUDAT & Research Data Management Summer School International CODATA 2017 Conference 'Global Challenges and Data-driven Science' Pecora 20 Conference: Observing a Changing Earth ICSTI 2018 Conference ICSTI Webinar: Blockchain for Science WDS-related Events 8th International Digital Curation Conference 9th International Digital Curation Conference ICSU 31st General Assembly EarthCube All-Hands Meeting Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction GEO XII Plenary & Mexico City Ministerial Summit FE Data and Observations Task Force Meeting FE Data and Observations Task Force Meeting AGU Fall Meeting – U23A-05: Curse of the Zombie Petabytes AGU Fall Session – PP53B-2352: Normalizing paleoclimate variables in support of data-intensive science RDA 7th Plenary and Side Events GEO Data Providers Workshop 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2017) RDA Eleventh Plenary Meeting 3rd GEO Data Providers Workshop Important Deadlines Call for Papers Closes for WDS-convened Session at AGU 2016 Early Bird Registration Deadline for IDW 2016 Room Block Expires for IDW 2016 Submission Deadline: EUDAT & Research Data Management Summer School Deadline for SciDataCon 2018 Session Proposals Calendar of Events