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European Open Science Cloud as part of Open Science

14/11/2016

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 ...

RDA webinar on ‘Aggregating and mapping Metadata’: notes

11/11/2016

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 ...

Matrix of Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Research Data Repository Platforms

09/11/2016

The RDA Repository Platforms for Research Data IG published a Matrix of UseCases and Functional Requirements for Research Data Repository Platforms. The resulting matrix may be useful to those developing, improving, selecting, deploying, customizing, or using a research data repository.___________________________________________________________________________________________________“Institutions, developers, and other members of the research data community ...

Call for reviewers. Help make African cities more sustainable and resilient by reviewing proposals!

08/11/2016

International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, and the International Social Science Council will support 10 col­laborative research projects across Africa in 2017. Deadline for candidatures to review full proposals is 25 November 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, ...

Open access publications

03/11/2016

The Agricultural Research institute of Cyprus is a Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment of the Republic of Cyprus. It was established in 1962 and since then it's researchers have published a number of research papers.  The library of the Institute is the AGRIS centre for Cyprus. ...