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OA 2020: Open Access 2020 international initiative pushing towards Open Access publishing

22/06/2016

OA 2020 international initiative – launched by the Max Planck Society in March 21, 2016 -  aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.“Open Access (OA) [Gold and Green OA] is a term used to describe a radical new dissemination model ...

Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) Competency Index is now available for review and feedback!

21/06/2016

The most current version of the Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) Competency Index is now available for review and feedback. The Competency Index for learning Linked Data is designed to help learners and instructors identify and prioritize skills for developing proficiency in Linked Data. “Understanding Linked Data standards ...

New Research Data Curation Bibliography released by Digital Scholarship

20/06/2016

Digital Scholarship released (on June 6, 2016) Version 6.0 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important.To tackle issues of long-term digital preservation and adequate knowledge representation of ...

Life stream announcement: Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: Tuesday 21 June

17/06/2016

Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: Tuesday 21 JuneTAP Secretariat is organizing a half-day symposium on Tuesday 21 June 2016 to discuss the findings of an e-conference which was held online from 18 April to 13 May 2016. This symposium will also discuss capacity development for improving human nutrition and health.How to attend: The ...

Free Webinar: Big data science for Earth observation - large scale visual analytics and knowledge discovery

16/06/2016

This webinar  introduces some big data analytics methods and tools dedicated to the exploration of large volumes of Earth Observation images data. There isn't any registration required. Please go to the instructions page for details on how to join the webinar.The Helmholtz Association on research data management and information ...