(Source: CASRAI.org)2017 CASRAI Working Groups (WGs) started their work in January 2017. These WGs will work virtually through March on their priorities and will conduct an open review (all welcome!) in mid-April to introduce their proposed standards and to seek community feedback and suggested improvements. Their final standards will then ...

ScholarlyData.org is an effort to keep the research dataset growing in good health. ScholarlyData has adopted best ontology design practices that guarantee backward compatibility with its predecessor - SWDF. ScholarlyData.org provides facilities and services to publish your scholarly data as Linked Open Data._____________________________________________________________________________________________________"The LOD Cloud contains minimal ...

Bringing GeoInnovation for solving Zero Hunger! This NASA-GODAN competition was  launched by André Laperrière (Executive Director, GODAN) during his keynote on 24th January, 2017 at Geospatial World Forum, in Hyderabad, India. GODAN encourages all interested parties to participate in this challenge. Registration begins now! Challenge due date: August 8, 2017. GODAN  also ...

(Source: Steps in the Data Life Cycle)Digital Scholarship has released Version 7 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography.This selective bibliography includes over 620 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.The "digital curation" concept ...

The Call for Linked Research is for everyone, in any field, who believes in publishing and promoting open, accessible and reusable academic knowledge. Linked Research works towards solutions where researchers can publish and consume research objects, as well as reviews and annotations that are open and both human and machine-friendly. ...