In December 2016, JISC released Moving Open Access Implementation Forward: A Handbook for Open Access Good Practice Based on Experiences of UK Higher Education Institutions. The handbook is based on the experiences of the nine pathfinder projects. Though this resource is aimed at staff involved in supporting open access implementation in ...

CODATA, RDA, and WDS plan to hold a Second International Data Week (IDW2) event in September or October 2018 and are requesting expressions of interest to host this 2nd edition.  The organisers are interested in reaching out to new communities encouraging interest from the global South, and in particular Africa. The ...

This essay highlights the success story of the deployment of SKOSMOS, SKOS Play, Fuseki, and VocBench editing tool to manage and publish the UNESCO Thesaurus. The system leverages Semantic Web standards by relying on SKOS as the data exchange format, SPARQL as the online thesaurus query language, and dereferancable URI ...

 This webinar is an extended, in-depth version of the SWIB16 conference presentation ”From MARC silos to Linked Data silos?”Date: February 28, 2017Time: 10:00am – 11:15am EST (World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017-Suominen)Minimum Participant Experience Level: Basic familiarity of bibliographic metadata and Linked Data assumedFree for: DCMI / ASIST&T members After ...

The Ranking Web of Repositories has been published since 2008.  The criteria for inclusion repositories are very simple: The repositories should have their own web domain or subdomain and include at least peer-reviewed papers to be considered. Services that contain only archives, databanks or learning objects are not ranked. Individual journals ...