<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">To the CODATA International Community, Greetings! Apologies for any duplication.<div><br></div><div>Help CODATA deliver on its strategy to mobilise the data revolution for research! The CODATA strategy comprises three elements: promoting open data principles, policy and practices; advancing the frontiers of data science and building data capacity, particularly in LMICs. </div><div><br></div><div><div><b>The Call is now open for nominations for CODATA Officers and Executive Committee Members to be elected at the next CODATA General Assembly, 11 September 2016 in Denver, CO., USA, at the beginning of International Data Week <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/</a></b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Please find attached a letter from CODATA Past President, Professor GUO Huadong inviting nominations for role of Secretary General, Treasurer and eight ordinary Executive Committee members. Nominations should be submitted by CODATA Members or Task Groups and Working Groups on the form attached, to the Nominating Committee, c/o <a href="mailto:simon@codata.org">simon@codata.org</a>, by the deadline of 1 April 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>The most important criteria for nomination is to be able to contribute strongly to the delivery of CODATA’s strategy. The covering note to the nomination form and the procedure document explain terms of eligibility.</div><div><br></div><div>With very best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Simon.</div><div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">___________________________<br><br>Nominations for SciDataCon 2016 Programme Committee, Deadline 7 February 2016: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/VoIxPFLWS5">http://goo.gl/forms/VoIxPFLWS5</a><br><br>Call for Session Proposals, SciDataCon 2016, Deadline 14 February 2016: <a href="http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/">http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/</a><br><br>Data Science Journal, Call for Papers: Advances in Data Modelling and Knowledge Representation for Research Data, deadline 31 March 2016: <a href="http://datascience.codata.org/">http://datascience.codata.org/</a><br><br>Applications are now invited for the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, hosted at the International Centre of Theoretical Physics, 1-12 August 2016: <a href="http://indico.ictp.it/event/7658/">http://indico.ictp.it/event/7658/</a><br><br>For further news from the CODATA community, please consider joining the CODATA International list at <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org">http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org</a><br>___________________________<br>Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org">http://www.codata.org</a><br><br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:simon@codata.org">simon@codata.org</a> | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99<br>Blog: <a href="http://www.codata.org/blog">http://www.codata.org/blog</a><br>Diary: <a href="http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar">http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar</a><br>Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59<br><br>CODATA (ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>