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New This Week: The organizers and program committee are very pleased to announce that Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will give a keynote presentation at the CODATA 2017 International Conference 'Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science', 8-13 October, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. ISMAIL SERAGELDIN, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He is advisor to the Egyptian Prime Minister in matters concerning culture, science, and museums. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions, including as co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010). Other confirmed keynotes are announced here and on the conference website http://codata2017.gcras.ru/. The deadline for to propose conference sessions and papers is less than a week away, July 28: http://conference.codata.org/2017/. Reminders You May Need
Data Science Opportunities: The bioCADDIE DDICC Core Team is pleased to announce the release of DataMed v2.0! DataMed is designed to be for data what PubMed has been for scientific literature. This version of the Data Discovery Index (DDI) prototype includes many additional datasets and reflects considerable user/stakeholder input. The user interface has also been updated to reflect this input. - Your feedback is welcome, via the issue tracker included in the landing page.
The BD2K Training Coordinating Center has been creating and populating the Educational Resource Discovery Index (ERuDIte), a database of 10,000+ data science educational resources from collective BD2K activities and from around the web. Data Science Events: A webinar from the BD2K MD2K Center of Excellence on "Contextualizing Health Behaviors using Spatial Data and Technology: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges" will be presented by Dr. Marta Jankowska of the University of California, San Diego. The webinar will take place 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET) on Thursday, July 27 as part of the MD2K Webinar Series. The BD2K Center for Predictive Computational Phenotyping (CPCP) will co-sponsor a Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service workshop. The first workshop on Big data analytics-as-a-Service: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications in Health Informatics is taking place on August 14, 2017 (in conjunction with KDD 2017) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The workshop will consist of a combination of invited keynote speakers, panel discussion, and paper/poster presentations. The Principle Investigator of the BD2K ENIGMA Consortium, Dr. Paul Thompson, will present the Keynote Lecture at the Cognomics Conference being held September 7-8, 2017 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Registration for this conference is now open. Registration is open for the California Big Data to Knowledge Workshop September 15, 2017. Register or learn more about the workshop: http://bd2k.ini.usc.edu/caconsortium/2017meeting/. Submissions: We welcome your input! Submissions must be received prior to 12:00 noon ET on Monday to be included in that same week's edition. If you are requesting attendance at an event by Federal employees, it is recommended that you submit your event information a minimum of one month in advance. To submit a news item, contact: Grace.Middleton@nih.gov.
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