The 20 th International CODATA Conference marks the 40 th Anniversary of CODATA in Beijing during 23-25 October, 2006.
The conference, aptly titled “Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society,” addresses issues such as fair and equitable access to data, data archiving, data protection and data security– to name but a few of the issues that will be touched upon.
Science has never relied more heavily on the collection, management and dissemination of data, and CODATA's task to contribute to all aspects of data, from preservation to sharing and value extraction and addition, will be addressed at this International Conference.

Contributed Sessions on Human Science Integration and its Synthetic Research Methodology was held during the conference.