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Free Survey Webcast on Funding Article Processing Charges

17/11/2016

 Webcast Details and Registration Title: Funding Article Processing ChargesPresenters: Gail McMillan, Leslie O’Brien, and Philip Young, Virginia Tech LibrariesDate: Wednesday, December 7, 2016Time: 1:00–1:45 p.m. eastern standard timeCost: Free for allRegistration: Register online by Wednesday, November 30.  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present ...

JHOVE: a widely-used open source digital preservation tool

17/11/2016

JHOVE is a widely-used open source digital preservation tool, used for validating formats of digital objects. The Open Preservation Foundation has assumed responsibility for this project and is in the process of creating a new permanent and sustainable home for JHOVE. “I don’t know of any open source validator ...

Should RDA be a training, education body? A certification body? RDA is asking You for feedback

16/11/2016

The members of the RDA Subcommittee on Strategy invite all RDA members to express your views on this issue and ensure that your vision and ideas for RDA are noted. Training and dissemination of new skills is a key question to enable Open Data and Open Science.Communication and personal ...

A Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food : GODAN discussion paper

15/11/2016

In September 2016, GODAN published a position paper 'A Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food', which explores a daring vision of an effective Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food that no single entity or network could possibly seek to deliver, but that might guided by principles of an open ...

European Open Science Cloud as part of Open Science

14/11/2016

In October 2016, the European Commission published the first report of the Commission High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (HLEG EOSC). The report  recommends framing the EOSC as the EU contribution to a future, global Internet of FAIR Data and Services underpinned by open protocols.“Imagine a ...