Date
Every first Monday of the month
Regular
Events
Calendar
Upcoming events and important dates
Please note that SC, EC, and TSIG meet regularly
Date
Every second Monday of the month
Regular
FDOF TSIG
Date
Every second Monday of the month
Regular
FDOF SC Meeting
Date
2026-30-10
Webinar
FDO Specifications 2026
Speakers: Sven Bingert, Jana Böhm, Maximilian Inckmann; During the last year, the FDO specifications underwent a major reorganization: from a collection of official notes to one consolidated and harmonized W3C-style specification document. These updated specifications are built on five years of practical experience in creating, managing, and utilizing FDOs across various projects.
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Announcement
Date
2026-10-02
Webinar
Conceiving an Architecture of Trust
Speakers: Paolo Budroni, Peter Wittenburg; The current practices can’t be continued since they will hamper making AI a commodity and addressing UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. A framework is required that also takes into account the different views and interests, that addresses sovereignty, transparency, traceability, accountability and persistence.
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Announcement
Date
2026-09-15
Webinar
From Modernizing a Data Center to Designing an Information-Centric One
Speaker: Massimo Fares (INGV); How the Italian Seismology and Vulcanology Institute turns its repository covering sensor and observation data of different types to an information centric one optimising the management and the service to users.
Registration Link
Announcement
Date
2026-03-25
Conference
3rd FAIR Digital Objects Conference
For the third time at this scale, the FDO2026 Conference will bring together leading experts from science and industry, technologists, data stewards/managers, researchers and policymakers engaged in advancing FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs).
More information
Date
2025-06-30
Date
2025-06-11
Workshop
FDO Operations Paper
For details see this announcement (which includes a reference to the paper)
Date
2025-05-19
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2025-04-07
Date
2025-01-15
Date
2024-11-26
Workshop
FAIR Digital Objects and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF)
For details see this announcement
Date
2024-11-26
Date
September 2024
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September 2024
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2023 Lectures
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June 2023
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March 2023
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February 2023
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February 2023
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2022 Lectures
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January 2022