Dear AGROVOC Friends, did you know that starting April 2017, the FAO AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus - available for re-use as a Linked Open Data under the international CC-BY...
Open Science is about increased rigour, accountability, reproducibility for research, and it is based on the principles of inclusion, fairness, equity, and sharing. Open Science as a goal:...
In November 2018, Springer Nature and Wellcome Trust were partnering again to stage 'Better Science through Better Data 2018' conference attended by ~200 delegates. ...
COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability stresses that still many challenges remain with improving data (based on semantic) interoperability. Besides the necessity to...
Global Landscape Forum (GLF), together with Wageningen University and UN Environment have recently launched LANSCAPE ACADEMY offering FREE ONLINE COURSES. Enroll now to test yourself! ...
(Image source: UNDP; Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India) ...
Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies - seen as agreed “world views” for interoperability - are key in ensuring we can make better meaning, management...
African Libraries play a central role as in today’s information led economic, social and cultural development. Different types of libraries serve as “motors” that drive the...
The Creative Commons (CC) Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. CC plans on adding new fields of practice, launching a certificate...
The Africa Information Highway (AIH) - launched by the Statistics Department of African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in 2012, as part of the Bank’s statistical capacity...