On the 30 November, 2018, the Africa Open Data Network (AODN) in conjunction with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and Big Data for Development (BD4D) project hosted a webinar on The Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC). The Africa Regional Data Cube is a new tool that harnesses the ...

FAO AGROVOC team takes this opportunity to inform you about the FAO AGROVOC December 2018 release. Starting April 2017, the FAO AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus has been updated on a monthly basis (see all AGROVOC releases).  Browse AGROVOC with SKOSMOS! We want AGROVOC to be useful and relevant for Your work! As of ...

Looking for controlled vocabularies or terminologies in the domain of Research Data Management? Take a look at the Data Thesaurus - the updated eScience Thesaurus (from UMass Medical School) which previously resided on the eScience Portal for Librarians. Data Thesaurus connects and defines concepts, services, and tools relevant to librarians ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - presented by the European Commission (EC) in January 2012 - was adopted by the EC to protect individuals from unintentional and intentional misuse of personally identifiable information (PII).  On May 25th, in the year 2018, the GDPR went into effect. GDPR applies not only to ...

@FAIR Data and Software Carpentries Lesson Mind Map (ZENODO) In November 2018, Library Carpentry, Australian Research Data Commons and the Research Data Alliance Libraries for Research Data Interest Group in collaboration with FOSTER Open Science, OpenAire, RDA Europe, Data Management Training Clearinghouse, California Digital Library, Dryad, AARNet, and DANS run the ...