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Be part of OpenCon Design Thinking for Open Research & Education !

02/11/2017

While international Open Research & Education community gears up for OpenCon 2017 to take place in Berlin from the 11 to 13 November, 2017, OpenCon orginizers are inviting all interested parties to contribute to a “DO-A-THON” (“a day of making, strategizing, and collaborating on projects to advance Open Research and Open Education”).Even if the ...

Developing Data Interoperability using standards: A Wheat Community use case

01/11/2017

[Download as a PowerPoint slide; source*]   The International Wheat Initiative (IWI) has identified easy access and interoperability of all wheat-related data as a top priority for the wheat research community (and agriculture in general), which is in line with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) data principles. Interoperability - - understood ...

METADATA 2020 : details and crosswalks of the recommendations. Can we agree?

01/11/2017

(Image sources: METADATA 2020 initiative & UKSG Conference 2017) Is it possible to achieve high quality metadata at the institutional level? A new ambitious METADATA 2020 initiative's belief is that investing in richer metadata* should be the scholarly community’s top priority. Good, satisfactory, open, connected and re-usable metadata reduces mis-communication and mis-interpretation, fuels ...

W3C and ODI Questionnaire on Practices and Tooling for Open Data Standardization

01/11/2017

The World Wide Web Consortium together with the Open Data Institute are conducting a study of practices and tooling for Web data standardisation, with financial support from Innovate UK’s Emerging and Enabling Technologies programme. The purpose of this questionnaire is to get a better understanding of what kinds of ...

AGRIS Advanced Search Possibilities (Part I)

31/10/2017

Access to literature is an integral part of science and scholarly endeavors. However, there is a gap between accesses to literature and retrieving the right articles needed for the task at hand.Due to lack of information retrieval skills, most students and readers find themselves lacking the literature they need. ...