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Discover 'Better Science Through Better Data 2018' conference collection made available on FIGSHARE

24/01/2019

In November 2018, Springer Nature and Wellcome Trust were partnering again to stage 'Better Science through Better Data 2018' conference attended by ~200 delegates.  This event covered a number of topics about the benefits, risks, challenges and practicalities of managing and publishing research data, with a particular focus on data skills, career ...

Produce LOD-enabled bibliographical data with LODE-BD recommendations

23/01/2019

COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability stresses that still many challenges remain with improving data (based on semantic) interoperability. Besides the necessity to use the most common standardized controlled vocabularies, metadata and indicators, the interoperability issue is also in line with the objective of striving for FAIR data, because ...

Discover FREE online courses from LANDSCAPE ACADEMY

21/01/2019

Global Landscape Forum (GLF), together with Wageningen University and UN Environment have recently launched LANSCAPE ACADEMY offering FREE ONLINE COURSES. Enroll now to test yourself! It is well known that learning is the foundation of long-lasting change. Through collaborative learning among diverse stakeholders, innovative solutions to global challenges can be ...

Blockchain technology on support of Agri-Food Supply Chain : Towards Data Quality & Trusted Data Governance

19/01/2019

(Image source: UNDP; Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India) Below you will find some thoughts about the impact of Blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain related to several existing projects and initiatives, overall implications, challenges and potential of Blockchain technology enhanced by relevant semantics ...

Vocabularies for Semantic Interoperability in Agriculture: discover Agrisemantics map with up to 400 standards for data exchange

18/01/2019

Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies - seen as agreed “world views” for interoperability - are key in ensuring we can make better meaning, management and, ultimately, use of the vast amounts of data becoming available every day. Semantic interoperability is the possibility that information distributed over the ...