The 22nd plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place virtually from 14 to 23 May.All experts and practitioners interested in agricultural data are invited to attend the session organized by the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice titled "Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI".Dates ...

The FREME project is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to address the general systemic and technological challenges in order to validate multilingual and semantic technologies that are ready for their integration in real life business cases in innovative way. These technologies are capable to process (harvest and analyse) content, capture ...

The AGRIS e – consultation survey took place from November 2014 to February, 12nd 2015.The purpose of the survey was to get AGRIS user feedback on various aspects of AGRIS platform, and furthermore, get AGRIS’ users to participate in the continuous development of the AGRIS in 2015 and beyond. The e-consultation focused on ...

The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed.agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability.agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and ...

Dear Vocbenchers,After almost seven months, a new version of VocBench (2.2) has been released.We had so many features being developed in parallel, that one month ago we decided to consolidate a few of them and freeze the others for a while, so to have a first release 2.2 and then ...

[Abstact] OCLC has reported that it has made 197 Million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works -available as linked data. This will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories ...

In the Linked Open Data paradigm, institutional repositories have the opportunity to enhance shareability, extensibility, and re-usability of their data by ensuring:content stable, discoverable, and readable data by both machines and humansuse of appropriate well established metadata standards and emerging Linked Open Data enabled vocabulariesuse of controlled vocabularies, authority ...

The presentations and slides of the "First Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" (LCPD 2013), which took place last September, are now available online. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Library, e-Science, and e-Research with a forum where they ...