The Make Data Count (MDC) project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and deploy the social and technical infrastructure necessary to elevate data to a first-class research output alongside more traditional products, such as publications. Partners of the Project are: California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE (...
Did you hear about SANKOFA? It is a Semantic Web Knowledge Sharing Collaborative Framework fostering the networking among the International Network on Appropriate Technology (INAT)* Community of Practice (CoP). INAT promotes Appropriate Technology (AT) to empower poorer people to achieve sustainable development. SANKOFA enriches AT knowledge representation through transformation of ...
Scientific results are increasingly dependent on large complex data sets and models that transform these data. This is particularly true in the Earth and space sciences, where critical data increasingly provide diverse and important societal benefits and are used in critical real-time decisions...Open, accessible, and high-quality data and related ...
The IOC* Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and Information Management (2017-2021) - published in English on 22/08/17 (UNESCO 2017) - is available as IOC Manuals and Guides No. 77 through http://www.iode.org/mg77. Within the context of IOC the following definitions for data and information are used: Data: consists of oceanographic ...
The Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD) of all technical terms related to irrigation, drainage, flood management, environment, river training and allied disciplines (see contents below)is a flagship publication of the ICID. First published in English and French languages in 1967, the 4th edition of the MTD (English-French) was brought out on ...
