18 December 2025

Nominations are still open for the 2026 WDS Data Stewardship Award. This distinguished recognition celebrates early-career data stewards who have demonstrated: 

 Nominees should be within 10 years of completing their Master’s, PhD, or equivalent professional training. Nominations are welcome from peers, organizations, or as self-nominations.  Private sector nominees must clearly show community value beyond profit.

Nomination Deadline: 16 January 2026  

Review Period: February-March 2026  

Award Announcement: April 2026 

Earth Sciences Information Partners (ESIP), a partner member of WDS, has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support their Repository Resilience project, where they are diving deep into the resilience of data infrastructure and continuing to work to make data repositories stronger.   

This project will build upon the Repository Crisis Scorecards (RCS), produced by the ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster. The project team will produce updated tools and a white paper to provide repositories, funders, and policymakers with concrete steps to equip data infrastructure to weather future crises.   

We congratulate ESIP on receiving Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funding support to strengthen repository resilience and to continue to improve the Repository Crisis Scorecards. Reyna Broadhurst, the Associate Director of the WDS-ITO contributed to this early release of the scorecards, especially with regards to identifying the detrimental impacts to science and society when access is disrupted or removed.  

Gum, J., Duerr, R., Blake, R. E., Garretson, A., Wyborn, L., Choi, J., Nurnberger, A., Jenkyns, R., Koren, G., & ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster. (2025). Repository Crisis Scorecards (1.02). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15208172  

Sessions at recent events including International Data Week 2025 and iPres 2025 featured these scorecards and underlined the pressing need for data repository resiliency frameworks and solutions. WDS is committed to making progress through collaborations with its members like ESIP, as well as the broader community.  

If you are a repository manager, researcher, technical expert, policymaker, or citizen archivist, consider getting involved in this project. ESIP is looking for broad participation and encourages anyone whose expertise could benefit the project to sign up to join.   

The Principal Investigator, Joseph Gum, will be at the following event if you would like to get in touch: US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit, 14-17 April 2026 

Join us in congratulating WDS’s Scientific Committee member Devika Madalli on her appointment to the ORCID Board. ORCID has announced the results of their yearly board member election. The individuals elected will begin serving on the ORCID Board in March 2026 and will complete a three-year term.

Congratulations to the new board members: Nicolas Fressengeas, Devika Madalli, Heath Marks, Steve Pinchotti, Carly Robinson, and Mercury Shitindo.  

After analyzing feedback received from their community, the CoreTrustSeal Board has revamped their requirements for Trustworthy Data Repositories. These changes will go into effect in January 2026, and the updated CoreTrustSeal 2026-2028 requirements are now available on their website. CoreTrustSeal’s Application Management Tool (AMT) will be closed for new applications only in November and December 2025. 

Additionally, join us is congratulating Andrea Lammert, who works with WDS member organization World Data Center for Climate, for her recent appointment to the CoreTrustSeal Board.  

As the holiday season approaches, we wanted to inform you that our office will be closed from 22-26 December 2025 and again 31 December-2 January 2026. 

Please keep in mind that responses will be delayed until we return.   

We appreciate your understanding and support throughout the year. Thank you for your continued partnership, and we look forward to serving you in 2026! 

The winter school, being held 2-4 February 2026, in Oslo, Norway aims to strengthen interaction and collaboration among European research teams in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and advance a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. The theme for 2026 is “Multilinguality in Large Language Model (LLM) Development and Evaluation.” 

This program will include in-depth technical presentations by international experts, with emphasizing open science and European languages, as well as critical reflections on current development trends in LLM-focused NLP. The event will end with a ‘walk-through’ of example EuroHPC experience reports from the OpenEuroLLM consortium. 

This is the final call to apply, and applications close tomorrow 19 December 2025. To apply for winter school, fill out the online registration form.

The 21st International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2026) will be held online 8-11 June 2026 with the theme: “Open to All? Repositories at the Intersection of People, Practice, and Emerging Technologies. This conference will explore how repositories sustain open knowledge exchange while advancing FAIR principles, preservation, community building, and respond to the challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies.

The conference particularly welcomes proposals aligned to the overall theme but will also accept proposals on other topics related to open digital repositories, including the following sub-themes:  

Submission categories include workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, presentations, and pre-recorded lightning talks.   

Submission Deadline: 11 January 2026 

A small registration fee to attendees from "high income" countries to cover the online platform costs is planned. Registration for all other attendees will be free. 

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) is accepting papers for their DARIAH Annual Event 2026, being held in Rome, Italy, on 26-29 May 2026, which will delve into the topic “Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.” The goal of this theme is to explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens. It will focus on how digital infrastructures, networks, and collaborative methods can enable and sustain forms of scholarship that are open, flexible, and socially responsive.

For a list of possible topics and information on the conference, visit the DARIAH website.  

Submission Deadline: 22 December 2025 

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) is hosting their 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature in March 2026, in Rabat, Morocco. They are accepting papers for this workshop, and a full list of suggested topics can be found on their website.  

Submission Deadline: 5 January 2026 

Researchers working with language datasets are invited to contribute to a new Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD), focusing on the innovative reuse of mono- and multilingual language datasets across the humanities. This initiative seeks to highlight diverse cases where existing deposited language data has been repurposed within research projects from any humanities discipline. Submissions may also describe how data reuse efforts have led to the creation of new datasets. 

Those interested are encouraged to submit discussion papers (3,000–5,000 words) that detail the reuse of one or more existing language datasets, ideally those created by others. All submissions should follow the Special Collection’s template guidelines. JOHD maintains an open access policy under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, supporting the broad dissemination of knowledge while allowing authors to retain copyright and share their work widely. 

Submission deadline: 30 January 2026  

The Language Documentation and Archiving Conference 2026, to be held 9-11 September 2026 in Berlin, Germany, invites those interested in joining scholars, activists, and technologists exploring new methods and technologies for documenting, preserving, and sharing the world’s linguistic and cultural diversity to attend and submit papers.  

The conference welcomes innovative and critical perspectives from both academic and community contexts. Although not required for your paper, the conference is interested in papers discussing the following themes: Relationships & Collaboration; Tools & Technology; Impact & Outcomes; Planning, Policy & Future; and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges & Opportunities.  

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 1 March 2026 

Design your own fully funded research stay at a leading EU data management institution with ATRIUM’s travel grants. Travel, accommodations, and subsistence are covered. Explore the list of participating host organizations and start planning your research exchange on ATRIUM’s website.  

Deadline: 31 December 2025 

The Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) is a free online global professional development program for librarians, information professionals, and other professionals who work in a research-intensive environment throughout the world. The curriculum focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to collaborate with researchers and other information professionals on data management. 

The translation of RDMLA into Spanish will make the RDMLA content accessible to approximately 600 million Spanish-speaking learners around the world. This project is the result of a partnership between a team of lecturers from the Department of History of Science and Documentation and members of the research group at the Health and Social Research and Information Unit (UISYS) at the Universitat de València (Spain). In September 2024, RDMLA established its official partnership with the Universitat de València and began working on a Spanish language version of RDMLA. 

Please direct any questions on enrolling in the RDMLA Spanish version to the RDMLA Team, rdmla.help@gmail.com.  

Sense about Science, an independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence, offers Early Career Researchers the opportunity to get practical experience of communications, policy and public engagement, and issues of research quality through their Sense About Science Internship Program, which will help ECRs develop key professional skills and contacts.  

Participants will work across a range of projects and programs; including Evidence Week, the John Maddox Prize, Voice of Young Science , Public Engagement Partnerships and Transparency of Evidence Standard Campaign . 

E Source develops data science applications that change the way utilities understand and manage their networks. They tackle challenging projects like forecasting the impact of severe weather on utility networks and optimizing vegetation management strategies. To conduct these projects, they leverage a combination of machine-learning models, inference-based statistics, and remote-sensing applications. Each project or product is collaboratively developed in-house by a data science team of diverse professional backgrounds and domain expertise. They are looking to add expertise in their applied meteorology area and are considering levels II through IV in seniority. 

Responsibilities:  

This role will be 100% remote, but occasional travel may be required. 

The Open Journals Collective is now accepting applications for two roles: a Library Engagement Lead and an Operations Manager.  

The Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) is offering multiple Postdoctoral Associate (PDA) positions designed for recent PhD graduates working at the intersection of Computer Science, Data Science, and Economics. CADMY is particularly interested in candidates with a research focus on algorithms, blockchains and cryptocurrency, causal inference, game theory, learning, machine learning, market design, and networks. Applicant’s PhD must be completed before appointment date. 

Application Deadline: 31 January 2026 

For questions, contact the CADMY Program Administrator via cadmy@yale.edu. 

The European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC) Federation has three open calls to support the growth of their organization:  

The submission deadline for all three calls is 18 February 2026. 

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