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RDA - Metadata Standards Directory WG: Share your metadata standards!

09/10/2013

The Metadata Standards Directory (MASDIR) Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is working on developing a collaborative and open directory of metadata standards that are used in scientific data contexts. The goal is to contribute to addressing infrastructure challenges. MASDIR has now started its work by asking the ...

AGROVOC LOD, AGRIS LOD and OpenAGRIS temporarily unavailable

09/10/2013

Unfortunately the following services have not been available since last week and will not be for some more days: AGROVOC LOD AGRIS LOD OpenAGRIS AGROVOC Webservices We are facing some technical problems with our hosting partners and are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for ...

RDA - Marine Data Harmonization Interest Group

08/10/2013

The Marine Data Harmonization Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance is a collaborative effort to develop a common global framework for the management of marine data. "This approach is necessary to address a number of phenomena both natural and man-made, the impacts of which require researchers from a diverse ...

ORCID announces awardees for the 'Adoption & Integration Program'

07/10/2013

ORCID recently announced nine project partners who will be participating in the ORCID Adoption and Integration (A&I) Program. This program provides external funding for North American universities and science and social science professional associations to integrate ORCID identifiers, supports the elicitation and documentation of use cases and open source ...

AGRIS reaches 7 million records

04/10/2013

In September, AGRIS reached the 7 million records, enriching its collection with the important agricultural literature of AGRICOLA, the database created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and maintained by the U.S. National Agricultural Library.  In addition to the 3.3 million records indexed from AGRICOLA’s collection, AGRIS published 6,000 bibliographic ...