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Free Webinar : OPEN DATA and OPEN SCIENCE : current trends and global initiatives

13/02/2017

(Image credit: The State of Open Data Report; figshare)Open Data and Open Science is a current hot topic and has implications for food and nutrition security, especially in Africa. JOIN us at a FREE WEBINAR dicussing OPEN DATA and OPEN SCIENCE: Current Trends and Global InitiativesDate: 14 February 2017, TuesdayTime: 13:00 Ghana | 14:00 ...

Towards Legislative Frameworks that allow Fair Dissemination, Access to, Sharing and Use of available knowledge

13/02/2017

The Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science with the  European University Association (EUA) High-Level Group on 'big deals' (with publishers on behalf of universities) met in Brussels on 12 and 13 January 2017 to discuss negotiations with large publishers, text and data mining (TDM), open research data and the European Open Science Cloud. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Free Webinar : Data Architecture Strategies : Constructing Your Data Garden

10/02/2017

Date: February 14, 2017Time: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific (Time Zone Converter)Presenter: Peter Aiken. Peter is the Founding Director of Data Blueprint - a data management consulting firm. He is also a former President of the International Data Management Association (DAMA), an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University....

AGRITROP : the open repository of CIRAD publications

09/02/2017

AGRITROP is the open repository of CIRAD publications. Its content is provided by CIRAD researchers themselves who deposit their publications. AGRITROP is based on EPrints free software and offers search/browsing enhanced by AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus and AGRIS categorization scheme.___________________________________________________________________________________________________Three online services provide access to some or all of ...

COAR Next Generation Repositories is open for public comments

09/02/2017

The document 'Next Generation Repositories' - which is now open for public comment until March 3, 2017 - presents 12 user stories that outline priority functionalities for repositories.  COAR welcomes your ideas and opinions. To share your comments, please use the commenting function of the website. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________COAR is pleased to announce the publication ...