The ultimate goal of the CGIAR Big Data Coordination Platform is to harness the capabilities of big data to accelerate and enhance the impact of international agricultural research. This 6-year platform (2017 – 2022) will provide global leadership in organizing open data, convening partners to develop innovative ideas, and demonstrating the power of ...

Stay tuned! #RDAPlenaryDuring the 8th @OpenAIRE_eu workshop at the #RDAPlenary, the new OpenAIRE Legal study on the EC Open Research Data Pilot and Personal Data Rules was discussed. All presentations from OpenAIRE workshop on how to improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data can be found ...

From: learnRDM‏ @learnRDM at @resdatall #RDAPlenaryResearch data is the new currency of the digital age. From sonnets to statistics, and genes to geodata, the amount of material being created and stored is growing exponentially. This deluge of data presents many challenges in areas such as policy and skills development, training, ...

(Biosharing.org at #IGAD17RDA pre-meeting, at #RDAPlenary, 4 April 2017)Biosharing.org is a curated, informative and educational resource on inter-related data standards, databases, and policies in the life, environmental and biomedical sciences. BioSharing is also operating as a Working Group (WG) under Force11 and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The ...

A new service, software, technology developed or under development? Submit your demonstration - deadline: 18 April, 2017 - and present it during 2017 EFITA Congress! _________________________________________________________________________________________________Dear colleagues,Montpellier, France, organizes this year the EFITA Congress. EFITA is the European conference dedicated to the future use of ICT in the agri-food sector, bioresource and ...