THE CHALLENGE With the proliferation of computing power and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, there is growing focus on leveraging Big Data across markets and verticals, but a new bottleneck is building up - the availability of high quality big data sources. Open Data is a potential game-changer in this field... ...

Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell  University, Yale University, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) and more than 185 international publishers. Research4Life partnership functions entirely on the basis of good will and its goal is to reduce the knowledge ...

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), with other partners including West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), is coordinating a REPOSITORY WORKSHOP in Zanzibar, Tanzania on November 19-20, 2018.This is the first in a series of meetings to develop a more cohesive ...

The Data Tree e-course in Research Data Management skills is now fully available here & goes live! There's a short trailer introducing the course.  The course is free for participants and is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by the Institute ...

(Image: OpenGLAM network) In 2018 community members from Wikimedia, Open Knowledge International and Creative Commons reinvigorated the OpenGLAM initiative. OpenGLAM is... ... a global network of people and organizations who are working to OPEN up content and data held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. As a community of practice, OpenGLAM incorporates ...