PPgis.net is an open discussion forum that facilitates the exchange of information about geospatial information technologies (GIT) used in crisis management, participatory development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and among indigenous peoples worldwide._____________________________________________________________________________________________________The term Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was coined at the ...
LICENTIA is a suite of web services to help in the process of choosing the most suitable license depending on the data to be licensed. This website does not provide legal advice. The information provided by LICENTIA are automatically generated._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“Data without explicit license is a potential legal liability and ...
The first NISO open teleconference session for 2017 will be today, on Monday, January 9th at 3:00 PM Eastern time. The topic will be will be the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), which is a NISO Recommended Practice published in June 2014 and available HERE. The call on Monday is free and anyone is ...
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance is pleased to announce the Public Review of XKOS - an RDF Vocabulary which extends the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for the needs of statistical classifications. The comment period is open until February 15, 2017._____________________________________________________________________________________________________XKOS - Extended Knowledge Organization System - leverages the SKOS ...
The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global effort to establish high level dialogue and cooperation between key stakeholders in scholarly publishing who are working together to improve the scholarly publishing system. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________In 2015, the National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) convened and moderated an online conversation between 120 open access stakeholders, ...
