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The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Recommended Practice - NISO Open Teleconference

09/01/2017

The first NISO open teleconference session for 2017 will be today, on Monday, January 9th at 3:00 PM Eastern time. The topic will be will be the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), which is a NISO Recommended Practice published in June 2014 and available HERE. The call on Monday is free and anyone is ...

Public Review of XKOS. Open until February 15, 2017

06/01/2017

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance is pleased to announce the Public Review of XKOS - an RDF Vocabulary which extends the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for the needs of statistical classifications. The comment period is open until February 15, 2017._____________________________________________________________________________________________________XKOS - Extended Knowledge Organization System - leverages the SKOS ...

Open Scholarly Initiative

05/01/2017

The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global effort to establish high level dialogue and cooperation between key stakeholders in scholarly publishing who are working together to improve the scholarly publishing system.  _____________________________________________________________________________________________________In 2015, the National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) convened and moderated an online conversation between 120 open access stakeholders, ...

Open Data Science Conference

04/01/2017

Image credit: ODSC Data Science Associate ProgramOpen Data Science Conference (ODSC)  brings together the global data science community to help foster the exchange of innovative ideas and encourage the growth of open source software._____________________________________________________________________________________________________Are you a data enthusiast?Do you want to accelerate your knowledge about open source with ...

Responsible Data Science. Ensuring Fairness, Accuracy, Confidentially, Transparency (FACT)

03/01/2017

Image credit: ‘Responsible Data Science: Ensuring Fairness, Accuracy, Confidentiality, and Transparency’ (FACT), slides, 2016.Responsible Data Science (RDS) consortium was launched in 2016 to tackle ethical and legal challenges, and develop data science techniques, infrastructures and approaches that are responsible for fair, accurate, confidential, transparent (FACT) data by design._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“The ‘Age of ...