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BigDataEurope : Societal Challenge 2. FAO’s engagement, recent developments and steps forward

12/01/2017

 The three-year (2015-2018) EU Horizon 2020 BigDataEurope (BDE) project aims to undertake foundational work to publish, manage, integrate, distribute and use of multi-lingual and semantically interoperable large-scale data assets and knowledge. The Food and Agriculture H2020 societal challenge of this project is tackled by FAO of the United Nations and Agroknow._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ...

PPgis.net : exchange of information about geospatial information technologies

10/01/2017

PPgis.net is an open discussion forum that facilitates the exchange of information about geospatial information technologies (GIT) used in crisis management, participatory development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and among indigenous peoples worldwide._____________________________________________________________________________________________________The term Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was coined at the ...

LICENTIA: a web site to Choose the License for your Data

09/01/2017

 LICENTIA is a suite of web services to help in the process of choosing the most suitable license depending on the data to be licensed. This website does not provide legal advice. The information provided by LICENTIA are automatically generated._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“Data without explicit license is a potential legal liability and ...

The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Recommended Practice - NISO Open Teleconference

09/01/2017

The first NISO open teleconference session for 2017 will be today, on Monday, January 9th at 3:00 PM Eastern time. The topic will be will be the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), which is a NISO Recommended Practice published in June 2014 and available HERE. The call on Monday is free and anyone is ...

Public Review of XKOS. Open until February 15, 2017

06/01/2017

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance is pleased to announce the Public Review of XKOS - an RDF Vocabulary which extends the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for the needs of statistical classifications. The comment period is open until February 15, 2017._____________________________________________________________________________________________________XKOS - Extended Knowledge Organization System - leverages the SKOS ...