2025 WDS Members Forum: North & South America Regional Session

18 November 2025

This Members Forum highlighted the 2025-2027 Action Plan, presented by Dr. David Castle, outcomes from the work developed by the Subcommittee on Standards and Certifications, presented by Daniela Santos Oliveira, and results from the Data Repository Investment Value and Relevance (DRIVR) project, presented by Reyna Broadhurst.

This session also included reports from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Ocean Networks Canada, & Worldwide Protein Data Bank.

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2025 WDS Members Forum: Africa & Europe Regional Session

18 November 2025

This Members Forum highlighted the 2025-2027 Action Plan, presented by Dr. David Castle, outcomes from the work developed by the Subcommittee on Standards and Certifications, presented by Daniela Santos Oliveira, and results from the Data Repository Investment Value and Relevance (DRIVR) project, presented by Reyna Broadhurst.

This session also included reports from 4TU.ResearchData, INTERMAGNET, National Oceanography Centre, Social Science Data Archive in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre, World Data Centre for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh, World Data Centre for Soils, & World Glacier Monitoring Service.

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2025 WDS Members Forum: Asia & Oceania Regional Session

13 November 2025

This Members Forum highlighted the 2025-2027 Action Plan, presented by Dr. David Castle, outcomes from the work developed by the Subcommittee on Standards and Certifications, presented by Daniela Santos Oliveira, and results from the Data Repository Investment Value and Relevance (DRIVR) project, presented by Reyna Broadhurst.

This session also included reports from The Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australian Ocean Data Network, Chinese National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), IUGONET, National Astronomical Data Center, World Data Center for Geophysics, Beijing, & World Data Center for Ionosphere and Space Weather (WDC-ISW).

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WDS Members Forum 2022

24 June 2022

The World Data System hosted the 2022 Members Forum in conjunction with International Data Week 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. 

It featured member presentations from Australian Antarctic Data Center, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg, Chinese National Space Science Data Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, WFCC – MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms, World Data Center for Climate, World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, World Data Center for Geophysics, Beijing, World Data Center for Ionosphere and Space Weather, and World Data Centre for Soils.