WRITE AN ESSAY ON WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE YEAR 2021 .
WRITE A PROPER ESSAY. NO SPAMMING.
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2020 has been an ‘interesting’ year! International collaborative organisations like CODATA have had to adapt to circumstances and make even more use of online, collaborative technologies and virtual meetings (which was already quite intense). The absence of face-to-face meetings has not limited our productivity – we may even have done more, and some of these activities are listed below.
But this is certainly a time to look forward to a 2021 in which we will articulate and apply the lessons of the pandemic for FAIR data and Open Science! We will doubtless not go back to the previous ’normal’, our activities and ways of collaborating and meeting will evolve. But there are some important events and activities to look forward to!
Looking forward to 2021!
International Data Week 2021: Data to Improve our World! Seoul, Korea and online, 8-11 November 2021. Whet your appetite for K-Culture, K-Food and K-Data with this promotional video!
Call for Sessions, SciDataCon, part of International Data Week: deadline 31 March 2021. International Data Week combines the RDA Plenary Meeting and SciDataCon, the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research, into one integrated programme. The call for sessions in the SciDataCon component has been released with a deadline of 31 March 2021.
CODATA General Assembly: Elections and Approval of Task Groups: the next full General Assembly will take place on 12-13 November, following International Data Week. This event will almost certainly combine in-person and virtual participation. At November 2021 GA will elect a new Executive Committee, Treasurer and Secretary-General, and appoint new Task Groups. The call for nominations for the election and for Task Group proposals will be released before 12 May 2021 and the deadline will be 12 July 2021.
ISC CODATA Decadal Programme ‘Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges: the major focus of this initiative, which is part of the ISC Action Plan will be moving from the pilot phase to launching the Decadal Programme. The first step will be the appointment of a Scientific and Technical Advisory Group. Watch out for announcements of this and other activities.
Cooperation between Global Open Science Platforms: thanks to a Chinese Academy of Sciences funded project, and in partnership with the Data Together organisation, CODATA will play a major role to encourage cooperation and alignment between initiatives to develop Open Science platforms and clouds. A major high level forum and symposium is being planned for late 2021. Watch this space!
International Dialogue on Open Science: UNESCO has developed a draft Recommendation on Open Science: after further consultation it is hoped this will be adopted at the UNESCO General Assembly in November 2021, then launched at the World Science Forum, South Africa, December 2021. To contribute to this discussion, CODATA has issued Call for Papers for a Special Collection in Data
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Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College and became a professor at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College after spending time in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife Frances Appleton died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. He died in 1882.