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Communiqué: International repository networks reinforce their aim to develop a global, open access knowledge commons

11/05/2015

Communique as published on COAR WebsiteMay 7, 2015: For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks have met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organized by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), was held on April 16, 2015 in Porto, Portugal and ...

Syngenta makes Good Growth Plan Progress Data openly accessible

08/05/2015

For the first time crop-level information has been openly shared by a commercial organization: The Syngenta AG collaborates with the Open Data Institute (ODI) to publish progress data of their Good Growth Plan.The Good Growth Plan was launched in 2013 by Syngenta to support the future sustainability in the agricultural ...

El potencial de los datos abiertos en la agricultura

07/05/2015

Consulta internacional sobre datos abiertos para América Latina y el Caribe Esta consulta de carácter internacional es promovida por el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) bajo el interés general de conocer el nivel de conocimiento sobre los datos abiertos, un tema emergente y ...

2nd CfP: MTRS 2015 - 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference

06/05/2015

As announced by MTRS 2015Important DatesMay 19th 2015 : Paper Submission DeadlineJune 16th 2015: Acceptance/Rejection NotificationJune 30th 2015: Camera-ready papers dueSeptember 9th -11th 2015: Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, United KingdomMotivationContinuing the successful mission of previous MTSR Conferences (MTSR'05, MTSR'07, MTSR'09, MTSR'10, MTSR'11, MTSR’12, MTSR'13 and MTSR’14), the ninth International Conference on Metadata ...

Report on COAR/SPARC conference “Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship”

05/05/2015

OpenAIRE has published a blog with interesting summaries and presentations of the recent COAR/SPARC conference held under the theme, "Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship". The blog can be read here.  and the presentations can be accessed on this page.Summary of COAR/SPARC ConferenceCo-hosted by the Scholarly ...