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CAB Thesaurus 2018 edition published (with 2.8 million total terms)

03/09/2018

The 2018 edition of CAB Thesaurus, the leading life sciences thesaurus, was signed off, on schedule, on Friday, 29th June, and is now available on the thesaurus web site. A detailed report on the new edition compared with last year's edition is available there, but here are some highlights.Total terms, ...

Machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs): Connecting the dots or...The Journey of a DMP

31/08/2018

What are maDMPs?  What are they not?  Who are they for?  How are they different from “traditional” DMPs? What does this mean for the future of DMPs and support services? …What comes next? (Source: DMP Tool) “RESEARCH DATA: Data are facts, observations or experiences on which an argument or theory ...

AGROVOC recommended as a Common Agricultural Data Standard for Data Sharing Context to accelerate Data-Driven Agriculture Development in Cambodia and Nepal

30/08/2018

AGROVOC has been recommended as a Common Agricultural Data Standard for Data Sharing Context to accelerate Data-Driven Agriculture Development in Cambodia and Nepal.(Image source: Development GATEWAY)Technology alone cannot lead to data interoperability: consensus-building and change management support are also required to achieve true and sustainable results.Rice… is ...

Registries for Open Data Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Policies, Journals

29/08/2018

Does your institution have repositories and policies related to Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Journals?Please consider registering it in the following registries:ROARMAP for Open Access (OA) Policies(currently 31 African OA policies)http://roarmap.eprints.org/ re3data for Data Repositories(currently 22 African data repositories)https://www....

AGROVOC has moved to VochBench3 (August 2018)

27/08/2018

In case you use VocBench for expanding AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus content: please note that we have moved AGROVOC content editing from VocBench2 to VocBench3. A new registration for VocBench3 is needed. Quite a few people use agrovoc-test to see the AGROVOC backend. The legacy VocBench2 test instance is still accessible ...