De siste årene har vi sett et økt fokus på bruk og gjenbruk av forskningsdata. Både forsknings- og forvaltningsdata er stort sett frembrakt med offentlige midler og det er i samfunnets interesse å maksimere gevinsten på investeringer i opparbeidelse av slike data. Dette har ført til nasjonale og regionale (EU) retningslinjer for fri og åpen tilgang til forvaltningsdata og det samme er i ferd med å skje for forskningsdata.

The International Data Week 2018 (IDW 2018) will address the theme of ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’ and provide a meeting place for data scientists, researchers from all disciplines, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers and data stewards. IDW 2018 is combined with the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of the research data community, and SciDataCon 2018.

The 13th IEEE eScience conference (eScience 2017) will address a wide range of topics within eScience, including relevant technologies, applications, and tools. Papers and posters will present the latest advances in eScience research and application and tool development. Programme at http://escience2017.org.nz/programme/papers-and-authors/. The conference also organizes several workshops, among others, the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.2).

The EOSCpilot project will hold its 1st Stakeholder Engagement event in Brussels on 28-29 November 2017. The two day event will include plenary sessions with high-level policy and governance representatives, as well as interactive parallel sessions to analyze plans and actions for evolving the five pillars of the project: governance, policy, interoperability, skills and services.