AIMS

Practical Application of a Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix for the NOAA OneStop Project

27/09/2019

Assessing the stewardship maturity of individual datasets is an essential part of ensuring and improving the way datasets are documented, preserved, and disseminated to users. It is a critical step towards meeting U.S. federal regulations, organizational requirements, and user needs. However, it is challenging to do so consistently and ...

International Symposium: Open Science in the South

25/09/2019

The International Symposium: Open Science in the South, Dakar 23-25 octobre 2019, organized by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and CIRAD accept registration until the 30th of September. Open science is a real lever for facilitating collaborations, conducting quality research, widely disseminating ...

Development of a Climate Forcing Observation System for Africa: Data-Related Considerations

24/09/2019

Development of a Climate Forcing Observation System for Africa: Data-Related Considerations In the case of the African continent, the estimates of most climate forcing components are associated with large uncertainties, above all the greenhouse gas budget. The EU-funded SEACRIFOG project is designing an observation network which aims at reducing these ...

Watch the GODAN webinar "Turning Data into Insight"

24/09/2019

GODAN webinar "Turning Data into Insight" For those of you who could not assist last week to the GODAN Webinar: Turning Data into Insight, we are now able to present you with the recording of the webinar.  This talk presented an overview of the Big Data Platform and the GARDIAN ...

Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalogue

23/09/2019

The Food and Agriculture Organization launched the Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) catalogue, this new tool provides an inventory of datasets collected through farm and household surveys which contain information related to agriculture, food security,  and nutrition. As of July 2019, the FAM contains more than 350 datasets with unit-level information on ...