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Open Vacancies on Open Education at the Open University of the Netherlands

09/07/2015

As you may know I was appointed as Chair for Open Education and Innovation at the Open University of the Netherlands. Since April 2015 I'm very pleased to work as Associated Professor at the OUNL and to strengthen the leading position of the Welten Research Institute.Three vacancies for my research ...

Announcing OnToology, a tool for collaborative ontology development

08/07/2015

I came across this news of an ontology tool -OnToology and would like to share it with AIMS Community. The tool was created by the OnToology team comprised of Ahmad Alobaid, Daniel Garijo, María Poveda-Villalón, Idafen Santana and Oscar Corcho. This is how they recently described it;About ...

Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science: Current State of Repositories

07/07/2015

Introduction The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR),on behalf of the COAR Aligning Repository Networks Committee recently published a report entitled ''Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science". This report presented an overview of the international repository landscape and was written with a broader audience in mind.Institutional repositories are ...

Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2017

06/07/2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERead it online: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Call+for+Expressions+of+Interest+in+hosting+OR2017Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2017The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from candidate host organizations for the 2017 Open Repositories Annual Conference. ...

Opportunities at the IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services team

06/07/2015

The IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services Team is hiring 2 positions - Content Co-ordinator and Web Applications Developer to work on projects like Eldis and OKhub.org. Selected candidates are poised to join a team of people that are committed to promoting open diverse and equitable knowledge creation and sharing ...