The Research Data Alliance (RDA) organizes a meeting in Gothenburg 14 June 2017, to inform Nordic researchers, decision-makers and other interested in open data about the activities of RDA. Read more and register at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-meets-nordic-researchers-14-june-2017.

The CODATA 2017 Conference 'Global Challenges and Data Drive Science’ will be held in Saint-Petersburg, 8-12 October 2017. The conference will address a number of topics related to data management, availability and analysis for environmental sciences and applications. Submission of session proposals and abstracts are now open at http://conference.codata.org/2017/. See Conference site http://codata2017.gcras.ru/ for venue and other practical information.

The “LEaders Activating Research Networks” (LEARN) project has released a Research Data Management (RDM) Toolkit, comprised of, among others, 23 Best-Practice Case Studies on RDM, a model RDM policy and executive briefings in 6 languages for senior management. Read more and download toolkit at http://learn-rdm.eu/en/research-data-management-toolkit-now-available/.

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has released a report entitled "Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators". This document aims to give an initial framework for evaluating and assessing regional, national and European e-infrastructures and for developing a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for central aspects of such infrastructures.