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New publication about agINFRA "agINFRA: a research data hub for agriculture, food and the environment"

18/11/2015

Read the new publication about the European project “agINFRA” on the F1000Research Open Science publishing platform: "agINFRA: a research data hub for agriculture, food and the environment", written by Andreas Drakos¹ , Vassilis Protonotarios¹ and Nikos Manouselis²The publication gives an overview about the whole project, including its strategic objectives, ...

New Webinar@AIMS: INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenges

12/11/2015

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to announce the webinar “INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenge”. It will present perspectives and implementation challenges of big data for agronomic research organisations.  It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and other interested people....

自然出版集团将与同济大学合作推出开放获取期刊

11/11/2015

          2015年10月19日，施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）旗下的自然出版集团（NPG）与同济大学举行了签约仪式，将合作出版开放获取期刊npj Pollution Control （《npj-污染控制》）。        自然出版集团是开放获取运动的早期推动者，自2005年出版首个全开放获取期刊以来，集团已有80种期刊提供了开放获取出版的选择。        该刊是自然出版集团在环境领域推出的首个“自然合作期刊”（Nature Partner Journal, NPJ）。将于2015年12月开始接受投稿。新刊将尤其注重提供原创和创新的方案，以解决全球所面临的环境挑战，这包括气候变化、能源对环境的影响、大规模城市化、有毒废物、清洁水源、空气污染防控、绿色制造、可再生能源等。 

United Nations Foundation was selected to host the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data that was recently launched

09/11/2015

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (the Global Partnership) was launched on the 28th November 2015. The overall objective of the initiative is to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by the promotion of open data. In particular, the Global Partnership aims to combat extreme poverty, climate change ...

Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS): The collaborative integration of three thesauri

04/11/2015

Last Wednesday, October 28, I presented 'Global Agricultural Concept Scheme: The collaborative integration of three thesauri' at the annual conference of the German Coalition for Networked Information, held this year at the German National Library in Frankfurt under the banner 'Linked Data - Vision and Reality'.  The presentation was well received ...