Through the support of the Worldwide Web Foundation, National Information Technology Agency (NITA) built the  Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) initiative with the main aim of creating an open data ecosystem in Ghana and subsequently the Ghana Open Data portal. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________The aforementioned GODI initiative (started in January 2012 as a project ...

In December 2016, JISC released Moving Open Access Implementation Forward: A Handbook for Open Access Good Practice Based on Experiences of UK Higher Education Institutions. The handbook is based on the experiences of the nine pathfinder projects. Though this resource is aimed at staff involved in supporting open access implementation in ...

The Global Survey on the Quality of MOOCs aims at improving the Quality of MOOCs. It is facilitated by the European Alliance MOOQ. The survey will run until the end of March 2017. Your participation is very important!___________________________________________________________________________________________________It is a unique first Global Survey on the Quality of Open Education ...

CODATA, RDA, and WDS plan to hold a Second International Data Week (IDW2) event in September or October 2018 and are requesting expressions of interest to host this 2nd edition.  The organisers are interested in reaching out to new communities encouraging interest from the global South, and in particular Africa. The ...

This essay highlights the success story of the deployment of SKOSMOS, SKOS Play, Fuseki, and VocBench editing tool to manage and publish the UNESCO Thesaurus. The system leverages Semantic Web standards by relying on SKOS as the data exchange format, SPARQL as the online thesaurus query language, and dereferancable URI ...