The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global effort to establish high level dialogue and cooperation between key stakeholders in scholarly publishing who are working together to improve the scholarly publishing system.  _____________________________________________________________________________________________________In 2015, the National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) convened and moderated an online conversation between 120 open access stakeholders, ...

Image credit: ODSC Data Science Associate ProgramOpen Data Science Conference (ODSC)  brings together the global data science community to help foster the exchange of innovative ideas and encourage the growth of open source software._____________________________________________________________________________________________________Are you a data enthusiast?Do you want to accelerate your knowledge about open source with ...

Image credit: ‘Responsible Data Science: Ensuring Fairness, Accuracy, Confidentiality, and Transparency’ (FACT), slides, 2016.Responsible Data Science (RDS) consortium was launched in 2016 to tackle ethical and legal challenges, and develop data science techniques, infrastructures and approaches that are responsible for fair, accurate, confidential, transparent (FACT) data by design._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“The ‘Age of ...

EMPRES Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i) is a web-based application that has been designed by FAO’s Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES) to support veterinary services by facilitating the organization and access to national, regional and global level disease data and information. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________Since 2004 the FAO of the UN has been ...

This post highlights an innovative tool for crop pest control eLocust3, a highly effective data recording and transmission system for crop pest monitoring developed by the FAO of the UN.___________________________________________________________________________________________________ “The Desert Locust is considered the world’s most dangerous migratory pest species. It threatens people’s livelihoods, food security, ...