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2017-2018 RDA/US Call for Fellows

10/03/2017

The US region of the Research Data Alliance (RDA/US) invites applications for its Early Career Data Share fellowship program. The successful Fellows will engage with RDA through carrying out self-proposed projects with RDA groups and through extensive networking and communication with the RDA community. Applications from traditionally underserved populations ...

Data Sharing : towards real impact in agriculture and nutrition

10/03/2017

 (Photo credit: Exploring the impacts of open data in agriculture and nutrition, CTA)The third edition of the international workshop ‘Creating impacts with open data in agriculture and nutrition’ was held in The Hague, 13-15 February, 2017. The importance of developing frameworks and models to promote the benefits of data sharing ...

15 March: Join GODAN Webinar : GODAN WG on Capacity Development

10/03/2017

The first GODAN webinar will give an overview of  the activities of the GODAN Working Group (WG) on Capacity Development and will explain how you can get involved. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________Here is the information about the upcoming GODAN webinar: Date & Time:15 March, 201715:00 - 16:00 CETRegister at:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/849000378880392705Presenters:André ...

ASIRA Online Course Webinars: Recordings and slides are available online

10/03/2017

A.S.I.R.A.  (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture)  online course for low-income countries - started on 13 February, 2017 - is in its last week. The course was enriched by a number of webinars designed to strengthen the course content, give course participants broader perspective in the relevant ...

rOpenSci : Transforming science through Open Data

09/03/2017

 rOpenSci tools allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment. rOpenSci packages facilitate drawing data into an environment where it can readily be manipulated, but also one in which those analyses and methods can be easily shared, replicated, and extended by other researchers.____________________________________________________________________________________________________Why Open Data?Open ...