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Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World

19/12/2016

In 2016,  the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (RTD) published a book that connects some of the key goals behind ‘Open Innovation’, ‘Open Science’ and ‘Open to the World’. The book also highlights actions that are already taking place in the implementation of the Tree Os’ and those are being ...

ELPUB2017 : Focus on Open Science

17/12/2016

International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) 2017: Call For Papers Theme: Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices. If you have a proposal for a presentation or for a session, please  consider a submission. The deadline for submission to ELPUB2017 has been extended to January 15, 2017. __________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach – A review

16/12/2016

‘Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach’ is the title of the paper that was awarded the Best Paper Prize, submitted and presented at this year’s 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research conference (MTSR 2016) held on the 22rd  to the 25th  November 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________________This paper - ...

Land Debate on Open Data and Land Governance

16/12/2016

In September 2016, the Land Portal and the Cadasta Foundation held a debate on Open Data and Land Governance. The highly substantive discussion included the perspectives from 26 participants from key players in government land agencies, international institutions and NGOs. __________________________________________________________________________________________________Across most contexts, government data sources on land are largely inaccessible, from ...

Zimbabwe workshop on Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)

15/12/2016

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) in conjunction with several partners has organized a series of training workshops in 2016 across Asia and Africa focused on access to research in agriculture and fisheries. Earlier, workshops were held in Namibia, Myanmar, Tanzania and Ghana. A ...