The RDA 9th Plenary Meeting, Data Infrastructures for Open Science, will take place 5-7 April 2017, in Barcelona, Spain. Information about the meeting, co-located and associated events is available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-ninth-plenary-meeting-barcelona.

Most of the presentations given at SciDataCon 2016 which took place in September in Denver, Colorado are now available from the conference website alongside the accepted abstract for the paper.  Each session and the abstracts and papers that comprised it are best accessed from the programme page http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/programme/.

VocBench 3 day, 22nd November 2016, UniversitätsBibliothek of Göttingen, Germany, co-located with the 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2016)

Funded by the ISA2 program of the EU, VocBench 3 (aka VB3) is an effort to develop a platform for collaborative editing of OWL ontologies, SKOS and SKOSXL thesauri, and other datasets based on information models of the RDF family, with particular emphasis on collaboration and multilingualism.

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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, is organizing a winter edition of our European Summer School in Data Science under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society.