20 February 2025

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We’re excited to welcome you to the newest edition of the WDS ECR Newsletter. Thank you for being an avid reader and subscribing to our newsletter. WDS would like to introduce you to events, funding opportunities, and job openings for the month of February. 

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The  World Data System  (WDS) and its  Scientific Committee  are launching a study using the  Delphi Method  to identify the top 10 value-added benefits of data repositories for researchers, funders, policy-makers, and other stakeholders. This study aims to demonstrate the importance of repositories in the scientific community by highlighting their role in research data management and the need for recurring investment to maintain and enhance these services.   

We seek participants from five stakeholder categories: funders, researchers, digital infrastructure providers, policy-makers, and journal publishers. If you belong to one of these groups, please click on  this link  to complete the first survey round, which will take approximately 30-60 minutes.    

The deadline for this first phase of the survey is 12 March 2025.   

For questions or comments, contact  ito-director@oceannetworks.ca.  

On 14 and 15 January, WDS-ITO and re3data hosted “Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources,” a workshop emphasizing the importance of metadata used to describe data repositories.  

Visit the  Webinar Archive Page to watch the recording or review the slides. 

Also, check out the WDS-ITO news item that summarizes the event, and the underway cohort exercise. See the ITO updates here. 

International Data Week (IDW) 2025 is a unique event that combines the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of this global community driven organization building the social and technical bridges to enable research data sharing and reuse, and SciDataCon, a scientific conference addressing the frontiers of data in research organized by CODATA and WDS. IDW2025 is taking place from 13-16 October 2025 in Brisbane, Australia, generously hosted by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). This year’s theme for IDW is “Data for Positive Change".

Webinar participants will receive guidance on how to navigate the rich four-day IDW2025 program and learn what a ticket to IDW2025 will include. The webinar is open to all; IDW newcomers and also those who have already attended previous editions of IDW. This is a chance to meet and learn more about the IDW founding organizations and ask any questions you might have regarding IDW 2025.  

This is the second webinar on IDW benefits and opportunities for the Oceania time zone. Recordings and slides will be available to all.  

Date: 25 February 2025 

Time: 16:00 AEDT  

Join us in Brisbane for IDW 2025 and help shape the future of global data science. Register today and be part of something truly extraordinary!

There is still time to register at the early bird rate below.

ISRIC – World Soil Information (WDC-Soils) has recently joined DataONE, a community driven programme providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data, see here.

As a result of this collaboration, the user community now can also freely query/access ISRIC-hosted metadata through the DataONE portal below.

The 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025) is this month. This event, organized by ELRA, SIGUL, and UNESCO within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), highlights the need for inclusive language technologies, building on the first LT4All conference in 2019. LT4All 2.0 will bring together leaders in language technology to explore ways to advance linguistic diversity and multilingual accessibility, empowering communities.

Event Date: 24-26 February 2025

The 11th Contrastive Linguistics Conference 2025 (ICLC) promotes fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. They are inviting the research community to submit abstracts on a broad range of topics, including:

Submission Deadline: 24 February 2025

Event Date: 17-19 September 2025

For more information and for abstract submissions, click the button below.

The Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) is inviting submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025), which brings together researchers from different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications.

Deadline for submissions: 6 March 2025

Event Date: 9-12 September 2025

Location: Naples, Italy

From our WDS member CLARIN, this café is designed for anyone looking to enhance their project management workflows and skills in the Digital Humanities (DH) field. Guest speakers from academia, industry and research infrastructures will discuss their experience and approaches to project management and how some of the principles and methods can be incorporated into DH research and teaching to improve the collaboration and efficiency of DH project teams. 

Date: 10 March 2015

Time: 15:00 - 17:00 CET

Venue: Zoom meeting

Sense about Science is collaborating with Taylor & Francis to produce a Research Integrity (RI) toolkit aimed at equipping ECRs with explainers and guidance on key RI issues so that you can both embed RI into research design and  speak confidently about these issues in the public conversation about science and research.  

Date: 27 March 2025 

Time: 10:00 to 12:00 UTC 

ECR’s from all disciplines are invited to participate in this workshop. The workshop is formatted as a small group discussion; no preparation necessary.  

If you are interested in participating, express your interest by emailing Dr. Nita Pillai here. 

How do global scholarly communicators approach policy and initiatives that affect their research infrastructures? Join the WDS Member ICSTI for a webinar on 22 April to find out! 

The ICSTI Impact Forum is a virtual webinar opportunity for ICSTI members and guests. At this event, subject-matter experts offer talks on ICSTI’s current work and perspectives on global STI topics. Each meeting also includes time for open discussion with IIF speakers. The 2025 IIF topic will be Global Perspectives on Open Science: Policy Driven Research Infrastructures. Stay tuned to  icsti.org  and follow them on  X  and  LinkedIn  for updates. 

Date: 22 April 2025 

Time: 9:00 UTC 

The feedback process is open now and will close 5 March 2025. Participants are encouraged to leave feedback to help shape the future of open scholarly infrastructure. The scientific community is being asked to review the summary of the proposed changes “Proposed POSI 2.0 revisions” PDF, 630Kb and then  take the survey. 

Deadline: 5 March 2025 

The SDG Classifier Demonstrator is a tool designed to support publishers in aligning with the goals of the SDG Publishers Compact, which encourages categorizing published content to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDG Classifier uses a pre-configured algorithm to evaluate content against specific SDG targets, then returns the number and name of all SDGs that the text matches. Stakeholders and publishers are invited to test the tool with sample data and offer feedback.

Feedback Deadline: 30 March 2025

The National Science Foundation-funded AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE) is now accepting applications for its 2025 Educational Fellows Program. 

Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career educators and researchers from all domains and disciplines who are actively enrolled in or formally affiliated with a US-based institution, are eligible to apply. 

Those interested in developing skills and/or positing research questions using AI-enabled cyberinfrastructure and knowledge systems to support areas such as digital agriculture, food access and security, and animal ecology are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Application Deadline: 24 February 2025 

The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), a WDS member, has opened an application call for their Raskin Scholarship. ESIP annually awards the Raskin Scholarship to a student in the Earth or computer sciences who has an interest in community evolution of Earth science data systems. The Scholarship promotes collaboration, research support, and exposure, with special attention given to applicants demonstrating an interest in semantics, GIS, cyberinfrastructure and computing in the geosciences. The Scholarship will provide a $5,000 USD award and support to attend the July 2025 ESIP Meeting (22 - 25 July 2025) where they will have an invited talk covering their field of interest. 

Deadline: 14 March 2025 

The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) launched its Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program. This program aims to promote open scholarship at accredited under-resourced, non-R1 US institutions by funding projects that enhance transparency, reproducibility, community engagement, and collaboration.  

What is offered:  

Application Deadline: 15 March 2025  

The FAIROS Program is accepting proposals for funding. It supports a broad range of transformative open science activities including but not limited to: 

1. Research, education, and socio-technical cyberinfrastructure development capacities that advance sustainable multi-disciplinary findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management (RDM) and open science capabilities 

2. Piloting new models of scientific communication and publication that improve efficiency and accessibility 

3. Developing FAIROS data portals, research data commons, RDM as a national service 

4. Lowering barriers to accessing, curating, integrating, linking, managing, sharing, and storing data across many disciplinary domains, irrespective of data size. 

FAIROS proposals must select one of two tracks to focus on, either: 1) Disciplinary Improvements  to targeted scientific communities, or 2) Cross-Cutting Improvements that apply to many or most scientific disciplines.  

The FAIROS Program is undertaken in support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Public Access Initiative. 

Proposal submissions are due 9 April 2025. 

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The Humanities and cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud (H2IOSC) Training Environment platform was developed to address the growing need for a structured and accessible system to manage and deliver educational content, particularly for modular and reusable digital learning resources. Students can enroll independently in open-access and restricted-access courses, the latter requiring a code provided by the instructor. Courses will be offered in Italian and English.  

Montgomery College in Maryland is seeking a full-time faculty member in their Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science (MSDS) Department beginning August 2025. While faculty at the College teach at all three campuses and online, this faculty position will be located on the Rockville campus with Collegewide responsibilities for teaching data science. This position is part of a collective bargaining unit.  

Application Deadline: 26 February 2025 

The German Technical Information Library (TIB), Program Area A, Collection Development and Metadata, Collection Preservation and Long-Term Archiving Department, is looking for an Inventory Manager (m/f/d) in the Long-Term Archiving Project for the State of Lower Saxony.

The position is limited to the duration of the project - 5 years. The weekly working hours are 39.80 hours (full-time). The position is suitable for part-time work. If the personal requirements are met, the position will be classified in salary group 9b TV-L.

The Department of Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions starting in Fall 2025, with an emphasis in the following areas: 1. Natural Language Processing including LLMs, deep learning methods with text-only or multimodal data; and 2. Applied Machine Learning / Data Science with specific interests in applications to health informatics, medical informatics, or educational data mining. Candidates in other areas will also be considered.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree by Summer 2025.

Data Science 4 Everyone  is hiring for a  Strategic Initiatives Manager  and a  Finance and Operations Assistant. Both positions are remote. Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E) is a national initiative working to catalyze the adoption of data science and data literacy as a fundamental component of K-12 education.

In this upper-level position, applicants will play a key role across the entire software development lifecycle, from design and testing to deployment, for the open-source OPeNDAP data server and related projects. Leadership skills will be crucial, as there will be opportunities to mentor colleagues and collaborate with external contributors to the projects. The primary focus will be to work with the OPeNDAP Product Owner on a NASA contract to help develop systems that work within NASA’s Earthdata Cloud software ecosystem. There is competitive pay being offered. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, be U.S. based, and pass a background check. 

UTHealth Houston School of Public Health invites applications to fill an open-ranked tenure-track faculty position in the Biostatistics & Data Science Department  at the Houston Campus located in the Texas Medical Center. 

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