International Data Week entitled "Digital Frontiers of Global Science" will come for the first time to Africa and will comprise SciDataCon (a conference for research and practice papers addressing all aspects of data in research), and the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA).  As one of its ...

(Sources: Core Trust Seal & Core Certified Repositories)In September 2017, the ICSU World Data System (ICSU-WDS) and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) announced the launch of a new Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) certification organization: CoreTrustSeal, which is looking to expand to trustworthy software, trustworthy data services, and fitness for use/...

Project Open Data Cube is a 100% open source project free for all to use and released under the liberal terms of the Apache 2.0. ODC was born out of the need to better manage Earth Observation/EO Satellite Data and has evolved to support interactive data science and scientific computing.  As ...

The annual Open Repositories Conference is a practitioner based conference that brings together people from higher education, government, libraries, archives and museums to focus on repository infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. The Conference provides a forum for delegates from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise ...

AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware ...... as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically feasible production in Africa; ... as an alternative to traditional Intellectual Property (IP) and closed knowledge systems; ... to understand its potential for development and collaboration across Africa, especially ...