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CABI merges with SciDev.Net

19/07/2017

CABI (the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) and SciDev.Net have agreed to merge, creating a stronger and more diverse combined organisation to help boost their shared mission to improve lives around the world.CABI is an intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information ...

Towards Digital Object Cloud (DOC) compliant with the FAIR principles

19/07/2017

(Global Digital Object Cloud (DOC) - A Guiding Vision; by L. Lannom & P. Wittenburg, RDA, 2016)Have you ever heard of the Global Digital Object Cloud?  It is now widely agreed in the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and beyond that concept of the “Digital Object (DO)” is central to proper data ...

FOSTER Plus : Call to Open Science trainers

18/07/2017

One of the goals of the FOSTER Plus project - launched on the 22nd of May, 2017 - is to train researchers (and other stakeholders) to give training on Open Science. As part of this goal, FOSTER plus will develop a trainer hand book. If you are interested in contributing, please ...

The role of AGROVOC and other Linked Data vocabularies in architectural models of interoperability

17/07/2017

The interoperability among resources and repositories continues to be a subject of research in the field of information architecture. The interoperability achieved by metadata enhanced by Linked Data (LD and Linked Open Data (LOD) enables semantic web alignments among concepts between repositories. This enhances retrieving (from a single access point) ...

Open Data : tools for facilitating its implementation and sharing

14/07/2017

If we want to make optimal use of Open Data -- also in the frame of the Sustanaible Development Goals (SDGs) -- we need to know what is exactly Open Data, what SDG-target(s) they can be used for, what regulations they are aligned for, who is working on what?...