AIMS

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) : what is it all about?

28/07/2017

In April 2016 the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was presented by the European Commission (EC) in January 2012. This regulation was adopted by the EC to protect individuals from unintentional and intentional misuse of personally identifiable information (PII).  On May 25th, in the year 2018, the GDPR ...

Research Graph : Data Exchange between Data Description Registry and VIVO platform

27/07/2017

(Source: ResearchGraph.org)The Switchboard software - the implementation of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG Recommendations in Research Data Alliance - now has a new capability to exchange data with the VIVO platform - open source software and an ontology for representing scholarship. Exchange of data takes place ...

8 September : Free Webinar : Metadata as Standard: improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance

27/07/2017

(Image sources: University of Bath, Digital Curation Center, Research Data Alliance, ADAM)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors ! We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming free Webinar on # METADATA AS STANDARD.  improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance (RDA)DATE:Friday,  8 September, 2017TIME: 15.00 p.m. Rome Time (CEST ...

4 RDA Recommendations for Open Data Sharing - now published as ICT Technical Specifications

27/07/2017

24 July 2017 - The Research Data Alliance (RDA) announced the official publication of its first 4 Recommendations as ICT technical specifications for referencing in public procurement as per Article 13 of Regulation 1025/2012 on European Standardisation on information and communication technology (ICT) technical specifications.# The ICT standardisation effort in EU ... ... is the cornerstone of ...

Data Management and Data skills training with Data Carpentry and ELIXIR

26/07/2017

(Sources: ELIXIR & DATA CARPENTRY)Data Carpentry is a partner of Software Carpentry designed to teach basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. Data Carpentry aims to teach researchers to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their's and other's data in an open and reproducible way. ELIXIR  ...