AIMS

Open Repositories 2018 : Sustaining Open

20/12/2017

The annual Open Repositories Conference is a practitioner based conference that brings together people from higher education, government, libraries, archives and museums to focus on repository infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. The Conference provides a forum for delegates from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise ...

Apply for 3rd Africa Open Science & Hardware Summit ! (13 - 15 April, 2018)

20/12/2017

AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware ...... as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically feasible production in Africa; ... as an alternative to traditional Intellectual Property (IP) and closed knowledge systems; ... to understand its potential for development and collaboration across Africa, especially ...

Avoiding Data Use Silos : How to Simplify The Open Licensing Landscape

19/12/2017

The Open Knowledge International report  ‘Avoiding data use silos - How governments can simplify the open licensing landscape’ (December 2017) explains why reusable standard licences, or putting the data in the public domain, - are the best options for governments. While the report has a focus on government, many of the ...

About Federated Research Data Infrastructures (FRDI) : Knowledge Exchange Report (2017)

18/12/2017

Report details: The evolving landscape of Federated Research Data Infrastructures (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1064730; all content published can be shared according to CC BY 4.0)This report, commissioned from Knowledge Exchange (KE), is an overview and synthesis of the evolving landscape of Federated Research Data Infrastructures (FRDIs) in the six KE partner countries: ...

25-29 March 2018: APAN Join Session on Web API, Open Data & Interoperability

15/12/2017

From March 25 to March 29 takes place the 45th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) in Singapore. In the context of the APAN meeting the AgGateway Global Network, GODAN and the APAN Agriculture WG are organizing a joint session on Web API, Open Data and Interoperability.  Access to field and ...