Dear Participant !On behalf of the Research Data Alliance - INTEREST GROUP ON AGRICULTURAL DATA (IGAD), we are pleased to invite you to the IGAD Pre-conference meeting that will be held on March 19-20, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The event will take place before the 11th RDA Plenary Meeting, March 21-23, 2018....

Digital Preservation combines policies, strategies, and actions that ensure access to digital content over time. When successful, digital preservation results in a cumulative record of human action and memory. The digital preservation landscape is one of a multitude of choices that vary widely in terms of purpose, scale, cost, and ...

International Data Week entitled "Digital Frontiers of Global Science" will come for the first time to Africa and will comprise SciDataCon (a conference for research and practice papers addressing all aspects of data in research), and the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA).  As one of its ...

(Sources: Core Trust Seal & Core Certified Repositories)In September 2017, the ICSU World Data System (ICSU-WDS) and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) announced the launch of a new Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) certification organization: CoreTrustSeal, which is looking to expand to trustworthy software, trustworthy data services, and fitness for use/...

Project Open Data Cube is a 100% open source project free for all to use and released under the liberal terms of the Apache 2.0. ODC was born out of the need to better manage Earth Observation/EO Satellite Data and has evolved to support interactive data science and scientific computing.  As ...