August 9th is the celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this day, but also on all the others, we consider… Read More »Celebrating International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Although I joined the World Data System International Technology Office (WDS-ITO) only 10 months ago, so much has happened. As the first Health Data Research… Read More »A Final Pulse Check: Reflecting on my time with WDS-ITO
The Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) Conference 2025, centred around the theme of “Building Futures Together”, recently took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, from June… Read More »Canadian Health Data Landscape: Advancing Collaboration at CHLA 2025
As I write this on World Ocean’s Day, I’m reflecting on recent earth and ocean science events that I’ve attended this spring. This week, June… Read More »Global Efforts to Coordinate Data About Our World
The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025, held from March 20 to 28 in Boulder, Colorado, convened a diverse assembly of Arctic researchers, Indigenous leaders,… Read More »Climate Front Lines: Big Ideas from the ASSW/ICARP Conference
Coming into this practicum with a background in data science, I was eager to explore how structured metadata, standards, and repository governance interact in real-world… Read More »Final Words from Qin (Ariel)
On this World Health Day, as we focus on ‘Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,’ the critical role of robust health research in achieving this vision becomes… Read More »Data Quality for Healthy Beginnings and Hopeful Futures – Reflections on the Health Data Summit 2025 on World Health Day
We’ve created a new social media profile on Bluesky! We are transitioning our primary social media presence to Bluesky in order to engage with and… Read More »The World Data System International Technology Office is on Bluesky!
Our recent workshop on Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources held in January 2025 was a tremendous success! The event brought together experts and… Read More »Data Repository Descriptive Metadata Workshop Review
Take the survey! Delphi Study The World Data System (WDS) and its Scientific Committee are launching a study to identify the value-added benefits of data… Read More »Delphi Study on Data Repository Benefits