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CAB Thesaurus 2017 edition published online
11/08/2017
The widely acclaimed CAB Thesaurus has received a major update for the 2017 edition, making it easier to access the world’s largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences. The search tool now provides a controlled vocabulary resource approaching 2.7 million descriptive terms.CAB Thesaurus content has increased significantly since ...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) : what is it all about?
28/07/2017
In April 2016 the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was presented by the European Commission (EC) in January 2012. This regulation was adopted by the EC to protect individuals from unintentional and intentional misuse of personally identifiable information (PII). On May 25th, in the year 2018, the GDPR ...
Research Graph : Data Exchange between Data Description Registry and VIVO platform
27/07/2017
(Source: ResearchGraph.org)The Switchboard software - the implementation of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG Recommendations in Research Data Alliance - now has a new capability to exchange data with the VIVO platform - open source software and an ontology for representing scholarship. Exchange of data takes place ...
8 September : Free Webinar : Metadata as Standard: improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance
27/07/2017
(Image sources: University of Bath, Digital Curation Center, Research Data Alliance, ADAM)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors ! We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming free Webinar on # METADATA AS STANDARD. improving Interoperability through the Research Data Alliance (RDA)DATE:Friday, 8 September, 2017TIME: 15.00 p.m. Rome Time (CEST ...