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Online abstracts submission deadline: February 15, 2013 - EFITA

02/02/2013

EFITA2013 is a joint conference of three associations, EFITA, WCCA and CIGR VII sponsored event. All these associations deal with the future use of ICT in the agri-food sector, bioresource and biomass sector. This year the conference will be held in Turin, from June 24 to June 26. Authors are invited to ...

10 Rules for Persistent URIs

29/01/2013

  The report "Study on persistent URIs, with identification of best practices and recommendations on the topic for the MSs and the EC" documents a survey performed by ISA Action 1.1 on Semantic Interoperability in order to explore good practices on the publication of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), both in terms of ...

Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013!

28/01/2013

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. There are ...

Open Data Protocols, DCIP

28/01/2013

Have you ever heard about Data Catalog Interoperability Protocol (DCIP)? DCIP is a specification designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web by defining: a JSON and RDF representation for key data catalog entities such asDataset (DatasetRecord) and Resource (Distribution)based on the DCAT vocabulary a read ...

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower Agricultural Research Communities

28/01/2013

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower  Agricultural Research Communities, is the title of a recent paper on the agINFRA project. agINFRA  is a European Union project (funded under the 7th Framework Programme) and aims to provide agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data ...