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Call for Papers : The 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18)

24/03/2018

Call for PapersThe 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18) will be held at Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, Cyprus between October 23rd – 26th,  2018 1st call for papers MOTIVATIONMTSR is an annual international inter-disciplinary conference which brings together academics, researchers and practitioners in the specialized fields of ...

Research Data Alliance : Data Management Framework : What Makes It So Special?

23/03/2018

Data is revolutionarily changing the way research is being conducted, and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) - through its multi-disciplinary, community-driven, and truly bottom-up approach - has a huge impact on this.(Image credit: RDA in a nutshell, SlideShare, 2018)Since 2013, RDA keeps building - in a very concrete way - ...

Discover AGROVOC and other Data Standards on the VEST / AgroPortal platform

19/03/2018

Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies are key in ensuring we can make better meaning and management of the vast amounts of data becoming available every day.  To simplify the task of retrieval  and using of value vocabularies on support of data representation, there is a number of ...

Open Access Publishing Solutions for Librarians (Recorded Webinar)

18/03/2018

Presenter : Nicolo Pierini, Open Access Sales Executive at Taylor & Francis GroupMore Information:The ever-evolving landscape of open access publishing and its complexity is something which affects all of us working in the academic sector. Focusing on the insights of the publisher, this webinar examines the current state of play in ...

Recorded Webinar: Best practice in governance of data for research: Licensing and Accessing (UK Data Service)

18/03/2018

Organizer:UK Data Service  WEBINAR RECORDING WEBINAR SLIDES WEBINAR QUESTION & ANSWERSTHIS FREE WEBINAR :1. Introduces best practices surrounding licensing and governance models for providing research access to data assets;2. Addresses a variety of data sources from data from academic, public and civil society bodies, and also consider the challenges of providing ...