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24 September : Abstract Deadline : Pan Africa Chemistry Network Congress 2017: Sustainable Agriculture ...

12/09/2017

On 7 - 9 November 2017, Accra, Ghana will host Pan Africa Chemistry Network (PACN) Congress 2017: Sustainable Agriculture; How the Chemical Sciences Can Contribute to Food Security for a Growing Population.The Congress expects to attract 200-300 delegates from Africa, UK and globally, including many leading researchers and policy-makers, to discuss current research, ...

25 September: a new session of the MOOC "Introduction to a Web of Linked Data"

11/09/2017

The MOOC "Introduction to a Web of Linked Data" will be available on 25 September (till 29 October) 2017 on the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform. It will be taught by Fabien GANDON, Catherine FARON-ZUCKER and Olivier Corby (Wimmics team, Inria, I3S, CNRS, UNS).The course is free and open to ...

28 September: Free Webinar : Structured Docs + Taxonomy: Finding New Answers in Your Content

11/09/2017

(Source: Structured Docs + Taxonomy: Finding New Answers in Your Content - REGISTER FOR FREE  [announcement])About this webinarWe think of content as documents: articles, books, presentations, videos. However, readers focus not on the documents but on the answers that they may contain ...- the answers to questions such as "What ...

COAR Controlled Vocabularies presented at the Open Science FAIR 2017 International Conference

11/09/2017

(Sources: Open Science FAIR 2017 & Infographic for COAR Controlled Vocabularies*)The past OSFair2017 International Conference (6-8 September, Athens) showcased the elements required for the transition to Open Science: e-infrastructures and services, policies as guidance for good practices, research flows and new types of activities (disseminate, mine, review, assess, etc.), the roles ...

Recorded Webinar : Metadata as Standard: improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance

11/09/2017

 About the past webinar:  In order to do anything meaningful with data, you need metadata. Metadata is structured information that helps you to work with data, but your structures may not match the structures used by others. That can make it harder to communicate your data, making it less findable, ...