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DataONE: addressing the grand challenges in biology and the environmental data sciences

05/12/2016

The DataONE is a community driven project creating the software and data accessibility to meet the needs of a community of users. The DataONE cyberinfrastucture provides open, persistent, robust and secure permanent access to well-described and easily discovered earth observational data distributed across multiple member repositories globally.“Using DataONE has ...

Free Webinar : Global Librarianship Services

05/12/2016

Register/Join Free Webinar: GLOBAL LIBRARIANSHIP SERVICESDecember 5, 20162 pm EST // 11 am PST // 1 pm CST Link to WEBINAR: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/r7hgw1jmnsf/ Abstract: As the opportunities and challenges raised by globalization become more a part of people’s everyday lives, colleges and universities are committed to providing their students ...

DivSeek: the future of food resides within crop diversity

02/12/2016

DivSeek aims to unlock the potential of crop diversity stored in genebanks around the globe and make it available to all so that it can be utilized to enhance the productivity, sustainability and resilience of crops and agricultural systems._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________“As the world’s population grows, global demand for food is ...

COAR Controlled Vocabularies: Improving consistency of repository metadata

02/12/2016

The 10th “International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research” (MTSR 2016)  also co-located four workshops, one of them dedicated to successful controlled vocabulary, namely the Controlled Vocabulary for Resource Type Genres version 1.1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________Controlled Vocabularies are one of the semantic glues that binds open access repositories and scholarly communication infrastructures together. They ...

Free Webinar: What can we learn from the Internet?

01/12/2016

Turing Award winner,  Bob Kahn was not only one of the inventors of Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), but also one of the driving forces within the internet community that created completely new opportunities, new technologies and new aspirations that we are all familiar with today.Join a unique webinar ...