Dear Colleagues! Almost a year has passed since Research4Life Programme launced its fifth programme, GOALI: Global Online Access to Legal Information, on the 6th of March 2018... GOALI: TOWARDS ACHIEVING EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL! Given that GOALI seeks to address the growing demand for access to data, information ...

In January 2019, the programme International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) launched the first prototype of the IOC Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) ‘Catalogue of Sources’ which is going to contribute to the objectives of the Agenda 2030, and in particular the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. ...

Given that agricultural research depends basically on data and analysis, governmental agencies, publishers and science funders now require data management plans for publicly funded experiments. This, along with the sheer volume of agricultural biological data being produced today makes good data management essential. In 2015,  AgBioData - a consortium of agricultural ...

Metadata is a part of the global conversation and is already recognized as a necessity for interoperability, discovery and contextualisation. Given that metadata is essential for data science endeavors, different communitites of practice keep sharing their knowledge regarding metadata development, harmonisation and adoption to help perform better throughout the research ...

WELCOME TO INTEREST GROUP ON AGRICULTURAL DATA (IGAD) MEETING:  MONDAY 1 APRIL 2019, PHILADELPHIA, USA For all interested in actively contributing with a short presentation (15 minutes), during the IGAD RDA pre-meeting (at the RDA's 13th Plenary Meeting; Philadelphia, USA) entitled 'Agricultural Data Interoperability: Opportunities and Lessons Learnt from Sharing and Re-Using Data', ...