Online, 15.00 - 16.00 GMT -  BookingThis introductory webinar - provided by UK Data Services - is intended for anyone who wants to learn about data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented, high quality and shareable research data result from your research project. The webinar ...

Image sources: Analytical Report 8: The Future of Open Data Portals - - European Data Portal  - - DataPorlatals.orgData Portals play an essential role in the promotion of Open Data practices across within each country and region, as they represent central points to publish and access datasets. In order to ...

From 16 to 27 October 2017,  FAO e-Agriculture community of practice is promoting its free online Learning Activity on the use of Drones for data collecting & analytics in Agriculture and Rural Development. Did you miss this real-time e-Agriculture learning event ? You can still enroll by filling in the following formThis week e-Agriculture had ...

To jump on global celebrations of the International Open Access week 2017, on 23 October 2017 FigShare released DigitalScience/Figshare landmark report entitled The State of Open Data 2017.  The report looks at global attitudes towards Open Data (#stateofopendata).   Its key finding is that Open Data has become more embedded in the research community ...

See: SPARC site highlighting examples of concrete benefits of making research openHappy International OPEN ACCESS Week , #OAweek , #OAWeek17 ! To celebrate the 10th edition of this global community-driven event, a number of communities of practice world-wide are pushing their #OpenAccess- themed events, new projects, webinars, posts . . . and many other initiatives and ...