(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 ...

The annual Open Repositories Conference is a practitioner based conference that brings together people from higher education, government, libraries, archives and museums to focus on repository infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. The Conference provides a forum for delegates from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise ...

AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware ...... as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically feasible production in Africa; ... as an alternative to traditional Intellectual Property (IP) and closed knowledge systems; ... to understand its potential for development and collaboration across Africa, especially ...

The Open Knowledge International report  ‘Avoiding data use silos - How governments can simplify the open licensing landscape’ (December 2017) explains why reusable standard licences, or putting the data in the public domain, - are the best options for governments. While the report has a focus on government, many of the ...