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The Roadmap for a pan-European e-Infrastructure for Open Science in Agri-Food Sciences mentions initiatives in support of agricultural data sharing & handling

28/06/2018

Among the initiatives driving agricultural data sharing & handling, the Roadmap for a pan-European e-Infrastructure for Open Science in Agri-Food Sciences - developed under eROSA H2020 project*  - mentions the following ones:The GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition),The RDA Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD),Access to Global ...

Register for free e-course "Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition": DEADLINE: 17th September 2018

28/06/2018

Apply now and join (1st - 19th October 2018) GODAN free online course to learn more about managing and using open data in agriculture and nutrition! The course is delivered through Moodle e-learning platform. Successful applicants are provided with a username and password to login to the system.A free online ...

Apply for the CODATA/RDA School for Research Data Science - Workshop: 22 October – 2 November, 2018 (Kigali, Rwanda)

27/06/2018

Background and purposeThe goal of this workshop is to train researchers in Research Data Science (RDS). RDS refers to the principles and practice of:Open Science and research data management and research data curation,the use of a range of data platforms and infrastructures,large scale analysis, statistics, visualization and ...

28 June, 2018: Join free Webinar on Strategies for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) National Reporting

25/06/2018

(The SDG National Reporting Initiative) ABSTRACTThe UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015, - are a historic commitment to take on the world’s most pressing and intractable problems. Through the SDGs, UN Member States have agreed to address poverty, hunger, gender equity, climate change,  andother global issues and to ...

DSpace 7 Data Model on support of new Digital Object types aligned with the COAR Next Generation Repositories recommendations and OpenAIRE v4 guidelines

20/06/2018

The DSpace Steering Group strongly recommends that the DSpace 7 data model should be expanded to support new object types (entities) to provide the following immediate benefits: alignment with the COAR Next Generation Repositories recommendations (especially around identifiers, e.g. ORCID),compliance with OpenAIRE v4 guidelines, andensuring that DSpace stays current ...