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Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013!

28/01/2013

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. There are ...

Open Data Protocols, DCIP

28/01/2013

Have you ever heard about Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol (DCIP)? DCIP is a specification designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web by defining: a JSON and RDF representation for key data catalog entities such asDataset (DatasetRecord) and Resource (Distribution)based on the DCAT vocabulary a read ...

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower Agricultural Research Communities

28/01/2013

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower  Agricultural Research Communities, is the title of a recent paper on the agINFRA project. agINFRA  is a European Union project (funded under the 7th Framework Programme) and aims to provide agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data ...

LOD@AIMS Webinar on "Clarifying the meaning of your public data through the Web of Data" (French)

21/01/2013

The FAO AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is glad to announce the fourth Linked Open Data @ AIMS webinar entitled Clarifying the meaning of your public data through the Web of Data. The session will take place on 22th January 2013 - 11:00am Rome Time - and will be presented by Christophe ...

Growth of Open Access Journals in India

18/01/2013

This post is about the growth of Open Access Journals in India with more emphasis on agriculture and allied subjects. We can see that immediately after Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Indian Academy of Sciences made all its journals Open Access. To this list Medknow also added few of its ...