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Open Education Week 2013

01/03/2013

Open Education Week is taking place from 11-15 March 2013 online and in locally hosted events around the world. The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources ...

Workshop on e-infrastructure and services at the GIL2013 conference

28/02/2013

An agINFRA workshop took place at the 33rd Annual Conference of the German Association for Informatics in Agriculture, Forestry, and the Food Sector (GIL) in Potsdam, Germany. The conference is attended by researchers and technical developers of university departments, research centres and ICT/software companies. This year’s thematic focus ...

Workshop on Linked Open Data in Agriculture (Germany)

26/02/2013

The German Federal Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (BLE) in collaboration with Other German Organizations and FAO of the UN is organizing a workshop on Linked Open Data in Agriculture. The workshop will take place on April 23 and 24 in Bonn (Germany). Now numerous registered participants from German professionals working on ...

Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP)

26/02/2013

The Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) is a 3-year initiative (2013-2015) funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. It aims to contribute to the removal of barriers hindering the effective sharing of data across scientific domains and international boundaries. ODIP brings together 11 organizations from United Kingdom, Italy, ...

The EU Commission launches Open Data Portal with 5,585 datasets!

25/02/2013

The European Union Commission has unveiled a new Open Data Portal, with over 5,580 data sets – the majority of which comes from the Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union). The portal is the result of the Commission’s ‘Open Data Strategy for Europe’, and will publish data from the ...