COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability stresses that still many challenges remain with improving data (based on semantic) interoperability. Besides the necessity to use the most common standardized controlled vocabularies, metadata and indicators, the interoperability issue is also in line with the objective of striving for FAIR data, because ...

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(Image source: UNDP; Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India) Below you will find some thoughts about the impact of Blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain related to several existing projects and initiatives, overall implications, challenges and potential of Blockchain technology enhanced by relevant semantics ...

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 and, ultimately, use of the vast amounts of data becoming available every day. Semantic interoperability is the possibility that information distributed over the ...

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 creation; access and usage of information and knowledge needed for this societal transformation. The IFLA AFRICA SECTION invites Librarians, Information Scientists and other ...