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2nd CfP: MTRS 2015 - 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference

06/05/2015

As announced by MTRS 2015Important DatesMay 19th 2015 : Paper Submission DeadlineJune 16th 2015: Acceptance/Rejection NotificationJune 30th 2015: Camera-ready papers dueSeptember 9th -11th 2015: Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, United KingdomMotivationContinuing the successful mission of previous MTSR Conferences (MTSR'05, MTSR'07, MTSR'09, MTSR'10, MTSR'11, MTSR’12, MTSR'13 and MTSR’14), the ninth International Conference on Metadata ...

Report on COAR/SPARC conference “Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship”

05/05/2015

OpenAIRE has published a blog with interesting summaries and presentations of the recent COAR/SPARC conference held under the theme, "Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship". The blog can be read here.  and the presentations can be accessed on this page.Summary of COAR/SPARC ConferenceCo-hosted by the Scholarly ...

Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) Beta 1.0 released

05/05/2015

The first beta of GACS, the Global Agricultural Concept Scheme, is out!See: http://tester-os-kktest.lib.helsinki.fi/gacsdemo/gacs/en/GACS explored the possibility of creating a global repository of concepts and terminology in the area of agriculture. This first beta is the result of the first experimental attempt, ...

Registration for AGORA Course Opens

04/05/2015

The registration for AGORA online course on ITOCA Moodle opens until places are filled (120 participants) , kindly register here . About the CourseThe course will be available on the ITOCA Moodle platform from 18 May 2015 to 18 June 2015, and will be offered in English. This 'AGORA Basic Course' is for individuals from AGORA registered ...

Introducing the BDE societal challenges: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine research and the bioeconomy

29/04/2015

From the Big Data Europe websiteWe start this series of blog posts on Big Data needs and opportunities for the various H2020 Societal Challenges covered by the BigDataEurope (BDE) project with some initial thoughts about Big Data in the area of ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine research and ...