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The IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Report

07/04/2015

The Summary Report of the 23rd Session of the IODE Committee is now available. The IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange held its Twenty-third Session (IODE-XXIII) at the Provincial Court, Brugge, Belgium between 17 and 20 March 2015.Report SummaryThe Session was preceded by the 10th anniversary celebration of the ...

Call for Tenders: Research Support for GODAN white paper

31/03/2015

Open Data Institute ( which is part of the GODAN initiative) is searching for a PhD candidate for 20 days research support work for the creation of the GODAN discussion/ white paper on open data and agriculture, food and nutrition. The details of this work is available in full here.Summary of ...

ORCID is hiring Regional Member Support Services staff

26/03/2015

ORCID is expanding its global member support and is looking for additional staff in four regions—the US, Europe/Middle East/Africa, Asia/Pacific, and Latin America.  More details are available here: https://orcid.org/about/team/supportservices.

A glance on AGRIMetaMaker tool requests

26/03/2015

AGRIMetaMaker is a web form or tool, based on the Drupal Content Management System, to generate metadata as easily as possible. AGRIMetaMaker (AMM) allows the AGRIS data provider community to generate high quality metadata using AGROVOC Web Services in a few simple steps.Some brief statistics on recent requestsCountryInstitutionAlbaniaAlbanian Journal ...

DuraSpace Webinar Series: Integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DuraSpace DSpace, Fedora and VIVO

20/03/2015

DuraSpace has announced a series of webinars focusing on  integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DuraSpace Dspace, Fedora and VIVO.The webinars schedule is as follows;Webinar 1: New Possibilities: Developments with DSpace and ORCID, March 24, 2015 at 11:00a.m.ETWebinar 2: Hydra: many heads, many connections. Enriching Fedora Repositories with ORCID, April 2, 2015, at 11:00...