The Open Data Institute (ODI) is today launching Open Data Certificates to help everyone find, understand and use open data that is being released.
The certificates have been created in response to business, government, and citizen needs to bring rigour to the publication, dissemination and usage of open data. Over ...
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published the report, Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories with a variety of successful practices for populating repositories collected from around the world.
There is an active, thriving community of open access repositories worldwide and their visibility is rising ...
The management boards of AGROVOC and TESEO (TEsauro SEnato per l'Organizzazione dei documenti parlamentari) met in Rome last week to compare their experience with thesaurus management in a world of open electronic data.
TESEO is a classification system maintained by the Italian Senate, to organize and retrieve legal data produced ...
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recently held a consultation with experts and policy specialists from the Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries to develop strategies and a roadmap to implement Open Access within the LAC region. The report of the consultation entitled 'Open Access to Scientific ...
Tips on how to manage a DSpace repository storage are offered by Brum Luyten of @MIRE in a recent posting. The premise of the post is that it is worth investigating whether it is really the new and valuable repository content occupying your hard drives. In a linux installation, one ...
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