Many of you are probably aware of this free online course Research Data Management and Sharing MOOC on Coursera that will start on 19 June 2017.___________________________________________________________________________________________________Today, an increasing number of funding agencies, journals, and other stakeholders are requiring data producers to share, archive, and plan for the management of their data. ...

CASRAI is calling on subject experts from the international research community to participate in this review. Participants are welcome from all research-producing nations, regardless of which nation. THE REVIEW IS NOW LIVE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2017. CASRAI thanks in advance for your active collaboration !___________________________________________________________________________________________________This is an international call for participants in ...

The European Commission provides Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020. A template for writing a Data Management Plan (DMP) is provided in the annex of those Guidelines. The OpenAIRE project aims to support the Commission’s ambitions regarding Open Science and FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable – data. Therefore ...

The FAO/INFOODS (International Network of Food Data Systems) Global Food Composition Database for Fish and Shellfish is the first edition of a global database uFiSh database (Excel) providing nutrient values for selected fish, crustaceans and molluscs. This product is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the FAO/Nutrition ...

The United Nations Global Pulse is an initiative that focus on Big Data. The Pulse Lab Kampala, in Uganda has developed a prototype application that makes it possible to analyse in real time public discussions on the radio.This tool is unique in that it applies speech technology in three ...