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OpenForis : Free Open-Source Solutions for Environmental Monitoring

01/12/2016

An FAO-led initiative OpenForis is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data producing, collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination in order to implement multi-purpose forest inventories and support environmental monitoring._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Forum on forests has been a priority on the international policy and political agendas ...

Open Access Network: be informed, join and take action

30/11/2016

The Open Access Network (OAN) is a transformative model of open access (OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners to support the creation and distribution of research, scholarship and affordable education.The OAN was launched in 2015 as a not-for-profit organization that ...

Center for Open Data Enterprise: focus on open government data and data users

29/11/2016

Open data can support economic growth and social good around the world. To that end, this global resource needs to be developed and managed in ways that meet user expectations. To reach this goal, the Center for Open Data Enterprise seeks to develop smarter open data strategies based on user ...

DENDRO : Collaborative Research Data Management Platform. A Semantic Wiki built on Triple Store

28/11/2016

The DENDRO platform is an open-source platform designed to help researchers describe their datasets, fully build on Linked Open Data. Whenever researchers want to publish a dataset, they can export to repositories such as CKAN, DSpace, Invenio, or EUDAT's B2SHARE. “Research data management is rapidly becoming a regular concern ...

Open Educational Resources: the future of Education, co-created with You

25/11/2016

Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons  is an open online library allowing you to search and discover OERs and other freely available instructional materials. The OER Commons infrastructure facilitates evaluation of content and its alignment to education quality standards.OER Commons infrastructure was launched in 2007 by a nonprofit  Institute for the ...