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Matrix of Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Research Data Repository Platforms

09/11/2016

The RDA Repository Platforms for Research Data IG published a Matrix of UseCases and Functional Requirements for Research Data Repository Platforms. The resulting matrix may be useful to those developing, improving, selecting, deploying, customizing, or using a research data repository.___________________________________________________________________________________________________“Institutions, developers, and other members of the research data community ...

Call for reviewers. Help make African cities more sustainable and resilient by reviewing proposals!

08/11/2016

International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, and the International Social Science Council will support 10 col­laborative research projects across Africa in 2017. Deadline for candidatures to review full proposals is 25 November 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, ...

Interoperability Standards - Digital Objects in Their Own Right. Wellcome Trust Report

08/11/2016

Given the relevance of the topic to the new CODATA effort on Coordinating Data Standards among Scientific Union Working Group, in October 2016, the Wellcome Trust published a report Interoperability Standards - Digital Objects in Their Own Right.  The report focuses on the wealth of content standards - available in the ...

FAIR Data Management. Towards the new era of Open Science

07/11/2016

On 26 July 2016, the European Commission released new Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020. The Guidelines place an emphasis on FAIR  principles defined by FORCE 11 group. On 14 and 15 November 2016, Florence will host RDA National Event : FAIR Data Management. Best practices and open issues._________________________________________________________________________________________________The revised Guidelines on FAIR Data Management ...

LIBER-DataONE survey on Research Data Services in Academic Research Libraries

04/11/2016

(Image credit: LIBER)The present survey on Research Data Services - carried out by a group of internationally renowned researchers in collaboration with LIBER’s Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructures Committee and DataONE - reflects answers from a representative sample of research libraries in 22 European countries.__________________________________________________________________________________________________“Research data is an essential ...