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Geospatial Data binding for Transdisciplinary Research in Crop Science

07/11/2017

 "Geospatial binding for transdisciplinary research in crop science: the GRASPgfs initiative", in Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:20 : https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0034-3 © The Author(s). 2017 This paper retraces the GRASP-GFS* (Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests with integrated workflow modelling to support Global Food Security) endeavor ...

Towards the Balance between Copyright and its Exceptions and Limitations

06/11/2017

(Source: Iconographic by SPARC Europe : Setting the dafault to Open) Copyright law aims to achieve a balance between the interests of creators (so they receive a reward for their works) and the public interest in terms of ensuring the public has access to such works. Legal flexibilities in Copyright - ...

Be part of OpenCon Design Thinking for Open Research & Education !

02/11/2017

While international Open Research & Education community gears up for OpenCon 2017 to take place in Berlin from the 11 to 13 November, 2017, OpenCon orginizers are inviting all interested parties to contribute to a “DO-A-THON” (“a day of making, strategizing, and collaborating on projects to advance Open Research and Open Education”).Even if the ...

AGORA, ASIRA, GOALI and other updates from the Research4Life Partner Newsletter

02/11/2017

The Research4Life (R4L) is delighted to announce the release of its October 2017 Newsletter ! As R4L gears up to launch GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), its 5th programme focused on the rule of law early next year (see:  the formal approval of GOALI) ...... it has been ...

Developing Data Interoperability using standards: A Wheat Community use case

01/11/2017

[Download as a PowerPoint slide; source*]   The International Wheat Initiative (IWI) has identified easy access and interoperability of all wheat-related data as a top priority for the wheat research community (and agriculture in general), which is in line with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) data principles. Interoperability - - understood ...