Events

Calendar

Upcoming events and important dates

Please note that SC, EC, and TSIG meet regularly
Date Every first Monday of the month
Regular

FDOF EC Meeting

Attendance by invitation only
Date Every second Monday of the month
Regular

FDOF TSIG

Attendance by invitation only
Date Every second Monday of the month
Regular

FDOF SC Meeting

Attendance by invitation only
Date 2026-30-10
Webinar

FDO Specifications 2026

14:30 CEST Online
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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Date 2026-10-02
Webinar

Conceiving an Architecture of Trust

14:30 CEST Online
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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Date 2026-09-15
Webinar

From Modernizing a Data Center to Designing an Information-Centric One

14:30 CEST Online
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.
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Date 2026-03-25
Conference

3rd FAIR Digital Objects Conference

09:00–17:00 Vienna
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).
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