AIMS

The first UN Strategic Plan (2017-2030) for Forests

02/02/2017

On 20 January, 2017, during the UN Forum on Forests, 197 Member States reached agreement on the first UN Strategic Plan for Forests that provides an ambitious vision for global forests in 2030. This plan will significantly improve the outlook for the world’s forests, including a target that would expand the world’s ...

Big Data Europe (BDE) 2nd Platform Release

02/02/2017

On 31 January 2017, the BDE Team announced the second public release of the open source BigDataEurope Integrator Platform (BDI). This platform is developed with the aim to facilitate and simplify the use of big data technologies by providing easy-to-use interfaces and deployment options. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________The BDI platform is developed with the aim ...

EPOS project : distributed research data infrastructure for European solid Earth science

01/02/2017

European Research Infrastructure on Solid Earth (EPOS) is the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programm funded project. As a long-term integration plan of national existing Research Infrastructures (RIs), EPOS aims to provide all researchers of its community with basic e-science services relevant to solid Earth science, and to ...

Free MOOC: Research Data Management and Sharing

31/01/2017

 (Source: COURSERA.org)  RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT & SHARING online course will provide learners with an introduction to research data management and sharing. START of this Free Course : 30 January 2017. Today, an increasing number of funding agencies, journals, and other stakeholders are requiring data producers to share, archive, and plan for the management ...

2017 CASRAI International Research Data Management glossary (IRiDiuM) Working Group

31/01/2017

(Source: CASRAI.org)2017 CASRAI Working Groups (WGs) started their work in January 2017. These WGs will work virtually through March on their priorities and will conduct an open review (all welcome!) in mid-April to introduce their proposed standards and to seek community feedback and suggested improvements. Their final standards will then ...