Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012. <a href="/issue70">issue70</a> November 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/919/author-info">alex ball</a> Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012. <a href="/issue69">issue69</a> July 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/919/author-info">alex ball</a>