GODAN is seeking a consultant to be the coordinating author of a 10 – 20 page think-piece report exploring issues of open data, data ownership and data governance in the context of...
Attendees are gearing up for the 7th RDA plenary meeting in Tokyo (RDA P7) at the beginning of March, and preparations are also underway for IGAD’s pre-meeting, set to take place before the...
The findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data – published on PLOS ONE - demonstrate a substantial uptake of data sharing through e-infrastructures and a further need for...
AGRIS will be updating users at least once a month in 2016. This aim of these updates or blogs will be to share the recent news, content additions and connect AGRIS with its users and content...
On February 19, 2016, Paris will host #HackFrancophonie, an event which will bring together participants from over eight Francophone countries and three continents. Different open data-based...
"Data in libraries ; the big picture" is the theme for the Call for Papers by the IFLA Information Technology Section in conjuction with the;Academic and Research Libraries’...
The interactive panel session about "Open Data for Agricultural Innovation" was organized by the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative together with the...
The Open Data Institute in partnership with the EU have created free, publicly available e-learning modules on Open Data in English and French. The programme has been designed to enable users to...
Drupal announced at the beginning of the month that they will be releasing Drupal version 8.0.0 premised for November 19, 2015. Nevertheless, Drupal is continuing to publish Drupal 8 release...
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (the Global Partnership) was launched on the 28th November 2015. The overall objective of the initiative is to support the achievement of the...