Special issue on the FAIR principles.

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From the CODATA mailing list:

A special issue on The FAIR Principles: First Generation Implementation Choices and Challenges, has been recently published in *Data Intelligence* . This special issue, organized by Prof. Dr. Barend Mons , the senior author of the foundational paper on FAIR Principles and the President of CODATA, Dr. Erik Schultes and Dr. Annika Jacobsen, contains 28 articles authored by 135 experts from 14 countries/territories worldwide.

A new version of the Climate and Forecast conventions is released

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The Climate and Forecast (CF) Conventions community has released the CF 1.8 conformance document. There are a number of major improvements in that document which now also support geometries (similar to Shape and KML) as point, line, polygon and multiples of these. The most recent version of the document is available at http://cfconventions.org/latest.html.

Next deadline for e-infrastructure applications to Sigma2 is February 9th

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The next call for processing and storage resources at Sigma2 closes February 9th. Further information on how to apply is provided at https://www.sigma2.no/call-e-infrastructure-resources-2. If you need storage resources and want to publish data, please contact us and we may help coordinate resource applications for the geoscientific community. If you are not familiar with the Sigma2 services, please check out the Sigma2 website and ask us if in doubt.