JHOVE is a widely-used open source digital preservation tool, used for validating formats of digital objects. The Open Preservation Foundation has assumed responsibility for this project and is in the process of creating a new permanent and sustainable home for JHOVE. “I don’t know of any open source validator ...
The members of the RDA Subcommittee on Strategy invite all RDA members to express your views on this issue and ensure that your vision and ideas for RDA are noted. Training and dissemination of new skills is a key question to enable Open Data and Open Science.Communication and personal ...
In September 2016, GODAN published a position paper 'A Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food', which explores a daring vision of an effective Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food that no single entity or network could possibly seek to deliver, but that might guided by principles of an open ...
In October 2016, the European Commission published the first report of the Commission High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (HLEG EOSC). The report recommends framing the EOSC as the EU contribution to a future, global Internet of FAIR Data and Services underpinned by open protocols.“Imagine a ...
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) recently held a hands-on webinar on aggregating and mapping metadata. The purpose of this webinar was to familiarise the participants with the aspects of aggregation, a process found in most science and humanities related projects (projects that include some form of data gathering of metadata ...
