The SDGs represent challenges in advancing the broad access to information agenda because of the divergent goals and proliferating targets and indicators. At the same time, the broadness of many of the goals presents opportunities for the agenda, particularly in the form of open access and open science, to embed itself at the core, thus allowing concrete actions and policies to be formulated in order to achieve tangible development outcomes. I will focus in particular on Goal 9 (“Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”) and argue that information and knowledge are essential infrastructure needed to build local research capacity which are in turn the foundation for sustainable development. The growing understanding of the importance of sharing methods and results throughout the research life cycle further demands the need for appropriate infrastructure. Examples of such infrastructure, such as data and publication repositories, already exist at some local level, but they are often fragmented and lack adequate resources. It is therefore important for FAO/IFLA/COAR to continue to advocate for the development of knowledge infrastructure and to ensure that policies are in place to support their long term sustainability.
Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals with Open Access and Open S...Leslie Chan
The SDGs represent challenges in advancing the broad access to information agenda because of the divergent goals and proliferating targets and indicators. At the same time, the broadness of many of the goals presents opportunities for the agenda, particularly in the form of open access and open science, to embed itself at the core, thus allowing concrete actions and policies to be formulated in order to achieve tangible development outcomes. I will focus in particular on Goal 9 (“Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”) and argue that information and knowledge are essential infrastructure needed to build local research capacity which are in turn the foundation for sustainable development. The growing understanding of the importance of sharing methods and results throughout the research life cycle further demands the need for appropriate infrastructure. Examples of such infrastructure, such as data and publication repositories, already exist at some local level, but they are often fragmented and lack adequate resources. It is therefore important for FAO/IFLA/COAR to continue to advocate for the development of knowledge infrastructure and to ensure that policies are in place to support their long term sustainability.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals with Open Access and Open S...Leslie Chan
The SDGs represent challenges in advancing the broad access to information agenda because of the divergent goals and proliferating targets and indicators. At the same time, the broadness of many of the goals presents opportunities for the agenda, particularly in the form of open access and open science, to embed itself at the core, thus allowing concrete actions and policies to be formulated in order to achieve tangible development outcomes. I will focus in particular on Goal 9 (“Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”) and argue that information and knowledge are essential infrastructure needed to build local research capacity which are in turn the foundation for sustainable development. The growing understanding of the importance of sharing methods and results throughout the research life cycle further demands the need for appropriate infrastructure. Examples of such infrastructure, such as data and publication repositories, already exist at some local level, but they are often fragmented and lack adequate resources. It is therefore important for FAO/IFLA/COAR to continue to advocate for the development of knowledge infrastructure and to ensure that policies are in place to support their long term sustainability.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Integrating principles of social innovation and knowledge ManagementRichard Vines
This presentation and discussion delivered by Richard Vines and Dan Cotton was one of the many presentations made at the National eXtension conference in 2014 in Sacramento California. It draws on the collaborations that have been emerging between Victoria's Department of Environment and Primary Industries, the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation and the US eXtension Foundation. These collaborations involve the piloting of two learning networks in the Australian Grains Industry drawing upon the lessons learned from the eight years of operation of eXtension across the US Land Grant network of Universities. The discussion that followed brought to to the surface some of the underlying challenges that Australia might face as it investigates the relevance of the US eXtension model and how it might apply in an Australian context. It also raises an emergent hypothesis about whether there really is an appetite to investigate possibilities, principles and policies for multi-national science based collaborations.
Alan Stanley, Eldis Senior Editor, discusses the values and approaches that underpin Eldis and reflects on the lessons learned from 20 years supporting knowledge sharing for global development.
Curating the Scholarly Record: Data Management and Research LibrariesKeith Webster
Presentation at the National Data Service Conference "New Frontiers in Data Discovery: Collaboration with Research Libraries.", Pittsburgh, 20 October 2016
Summit on Olive Project software emulation and curation serviceKeith Webster
Opening remarks by Keith Webster to a summit held at Carnegie Mellon University on the Olive Project. The technology underpinning Olive was developed by Mahadev Satyanarayanan to emulate executable content, allowing for its execution in contemporary software environments. Webster positions Olive's potential as part of a suite of digital preservation services operated by research libraries, seeking to preserve all forms of digital scholarship.
Presentation at a public event at C asean, hosted by the National Innovation Agency of Thailand. This talk provides an overview of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, its history, goals, research objectives and the network partners. In particular, it highlights the rationale behind the drafting of a set of principles underlying a vision of open science that has at its core a commitment to equitable participation in the production and circulation of scientific knowledge.
Open Access in the Global South: Perspectives from the OCSDNetLeslie Chan
Webinar for COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) May 3, 2018.
The webinar will focus on the lessons learn from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network with regard to "openness" and how an expanded view of openness would allow us to rethink the design of a sustainable, open and community based common scholarship infrastructure.
Integrating principles of social innovation and knowledge ManagementRichard Vines
This presentation and discussion delivered by Richard Vines and Dan Cotton was one of the many presentations made at the National eXtension conference in 2014 in Sacramento California. It draws on the collaborations that have been emerging between Victoria's Department of Environment and Primary Industries, the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation and the US eXtension Foundation. These collaborations involve the piloting of two learning networks in the Australian Grains Industry drawing upon the lessons learned from the eight years of operation of eXtension across the US Land Grant network of Universities. The discussion that followed brought to to the surface some of the underlying challenges that Australia might face as it investigates the relevance of the US eXtension model and how it might apply in an Australian context. It also raises an emergent hypothesis about whether there really is an appetite to investigate possibilities, principles and policies for multi-national science based collaborations.
Alan Stanley, Eldis Senior Editor, discusses the values and approaches that underpin Eldis and reflects on the lessons learned from 20 years supporting knowledge sharing for global development.
Curating the Scholarly Record: Data Management and Research LibrariesKeith Webster
Presentation at the National Data Service Conference "New Frontiers in Data Discovery: Collaboration with Research Libraries.", Pittsburgh, 20 October 2016
Summit on Olive Project software emulation and curation serviceKeith Webster
Opening remarks by Keith Webster to a summit held at Carnegie Mellon University on the Olive Project. The technology underpinning Olive was developed by Mahadev Satyanarayanan to emulate executable content, allowing for its execution in contemporary software environments. Webster positions Olive's potential as part of a suite of digital preservation services operated by research libraries, seeking to preserve all forms of digital scholarship.
Presentation at a public event at C asean, hosted by the National Innovation Agency of Thailand. This talk provides an overview of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, its history, goals, research objectives and the network partners. In particular, it highlights the rationale behind the drafting of a set of principles underlying a vision of open science that has at its core a commitment to equitable participation in the production and circulation of scientific knowledge.
Open Access in the Global South: Perspectives from the OCSDNetLeslie Chan
Webinar for COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) May 3, 2018.
The webinar will focus on the lessons learn from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network with regard to "openness" and how an expanded view of openness would allow us to rethink the design of a sustainable, open and community based common scholarship infrastructure.
What is Open Science and what role does it play in Development?Leslie Chan
What is Open Science and what role does it play in Development?
The talk begins with a review of current understanding of open science and its alleged role in providing new opportunities for addressing long-standing development challenges. I then introduce the newly launched Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, funded by IDRC Canada, and in collaboration with iHub Nairobi, Kenya. The rationale, funding modalities, and the short and long term objectives of the network will be discussed.
OpenAIRE-COAR conference 2014: Re-imagining the role of institutional reposit...OpenAIRE
Presentation at the OpenAIRE-COAR Conference: "Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together", Athens - May 21-22, 2014.
Re-imagining the role of institutional repositories in open scholarship, by Leslie Chan - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Kicking off the INCENTIVE project with an intro to the CS Principles and Char...Margaret Gold
-The Citizen Science Lab at Leiden University
- The core concept of the INCENTIVE project
- The ECSA 10 Principles of Citizen Science
- The ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science
Pros and Cons of Open Data: A Global South PerspectiveMichelle Willmers
Presentation by ROER4D Curation & Dissemination Manager Michelle Willmers on open data practice in the Global South to the Committee of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the International Committee for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI).
Re-imagining the role of Institutional Repository in Open ScholarshipLeslie Chan
Keynote at the OpenAIRE and COAR Joint Conference Open Access: Movement to Reality
Putting the Pieces Together. Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, May 21-13, 2014
ELPUB 2018 Feminist Open Science workshopLeslie Chan
This was the slides for the workshop on Feminist Open Science presented at ELPUB2018 in Toronto. Notes for the session is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zr51nZ4VRjVNLixeRc_4SPa-liSALADLTbJ1RUJYcpo/edit
"This workshop will centre on how current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs, but has largely avoided tackling many important issues related to inclusion of a diversity of perspectives in science. We believe a feminist perspective can help to surface these issues, particularly with regard to the need for inclusive infrastructure, which are especially important as Open Science increasingly becomes part of government agendas and policies. We expect that researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in Open Science will benefit from this workshop to think about issues of inclusivity in Open Science that are not receiving sufficient attention. We expect participants who attend this workshop will gain awareness about relevant resources and work that has been done by feminist technoscience scholars to expand the perspectives of Open Science. We hope that participants will take away new possibilities for their work that they may not have considered before. For policy makers, this workshop will be particularly relevant to help think about how evidence for Open Science should be assessed from a more feminist inclusive standpoint. The workshop will also present results from a two-day workshop on Feminist Open Science that will take place prior to the ELPUB workshop, with the intent of soliciting feedback and collaboration."
Welcome Speech At The Libsense Regional Open Science Policy Development WorkshopElvis Muyanja
By Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, Chairman Of Board Of Directors, Uganda Technology And Management University (UTAMU) barya@utamu.ac.ug | www.utamu.ac.ug
Open Research Data Frameworks: Lessons for the Global SouthAnup Kumar Das
The presentation titled "Open Research Data Frameworks: Lessons for the Global South" was delivered in the National Symposium on Improving eGovernance using Big Data Analytics, held at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, on 28th February 2017. The symposium was a run up event of ICEGOV2017 (10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance), held at New Delhi. I briefly discussed the global initiatives such as UNESCO's Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), Re3Data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories), GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition), Research Data Alliance (RDA), ICSSR Data Service, and self-archiving of scientific data on data repositories.
This presentation was provided by Tiffany Straza of UNESCO, during the two-day "NISO Tech Summit: Reflections Upon The Year of Open Science." Day two was held on October 26, 2023.
The changing role of libraries in the knowledge-based economy and sustainable...e-Marefa
This keynote address was made at the second international conference of the Lebanese Library Association in Beirut under the title of Thinking together: innovate, share, preserve and access.
The Future of Open Science and How to Stop itLeslie Chan
Presentation at the Open Science panel at the launch of Steps Latina America. The talk attempts to situate the rational and objectives of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network within the broader landscape of discourse on "openness". While recognizing the potential benefits of openness, it is important to keep in mind the existing structural inequality in global scientific knowledge production and circulation and reflect on the needs to challenge this power asymmetry as a starting point for further understanding on how open science may contribute to development challenges.
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The IMLS-funded project Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) has created a "Competency Index for Linked Data".
The Index provides a concise and readable map of concepts and skills related to the practices and technologies of Linked Data for the benefit of interested learners and their teachers.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) has developed a Catalogue of Metadata standards and tools aimed at researchers and those who support them. In its new version, the Metadata Standards Catalog will provide much greater detail about metadata standards and tools, and through its new API - it will be usable within other applications. It will also provide a platform for furthering the work of the RDA Metadata Interest Group, which is seeking to improve the interoperability of metadata in different standards by working towards semi-automatically generated converters.
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) calls for the contribution of non confidential information about the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) to the Global Information System (GLIS) to facilitate access to such information by any party interested. The foundation of GLIS is the accurate identification of the PGRFA to which the information is associated. After extensive research and consultation, DOIs have been selected as the Permanent Unique Identifier of choice for GLIS.
The webinar describes the challenges that the GLIS team of the ITPGRFA has faced as well as the benefits that the GLIS user community will receive by the adoption of DOIs.
Initially developed by FAO of the UN in the context of the NeOn project as a collaborative environment for the development of the AGROVOC thesaurus, later generalized to a SKOS-XLdevelopment platform in the context of a collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vergata, VocBench is now reaching its third incarnation.
VocBench 3 (or simply, VB3), is the new version of VocBench, funded by the European Commission ISA² programme, and with development managed by the Publications Office of the EU, under contract 10632 (Infeurope S.A.).
VB3 will offer a powerful editing environment, with facilities for collaborative management of OWL ontologies and SKOS/SKOS-XL thesauri. VB3 will surpass its predecessor with native support for OWL, SKOS and SKOS-XL, completely rewritten components for better User Interface, User Management, History Tracking and Validation&Publication Workflow.
Research activities rely on access and repeatability of results. Accurate identification of the subject of the research as well as of the techniques and methods used is critical to obtain reliable results.
The adoption of Permanent Unique Identifiers, and specifically Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)promotes access and reusability of data in modern research. The webinar begins with some basic concepts on Permanent Unique Identifiers. Next, DOIs are introduced describing how they are managed, how they can be obtained and how their features can be of benefit to researchers in a wide range of fields.
The FAIR principles have been introduced as a guideline for good scientific data stewardship. They have gained momentum at a management level and are now for example part of the project template for EU Horizon 2020 projects. This raises the question what research groups and projects can do to implement them. Hugo Besemer will introduce the ideas behind the FAIR principles.
By Ignasi Labastida is the Head of the Office the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Universitat de Barcelona
25 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
In 2006 the University of Barcelona launched the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge (ODK) in order to make visible its commitment with openness started in 2003 when it joined Creative Commons as its host institution in Spain. Currently the ODK is based in the library and during these ten years has been involved in many activities, events, project and trainings to foster openness in any academic level from education to research. In this webinar, Dr. Labastida will explain how they have been developing this work and how the community has reacted.
By Sander Janssen, Research Team Leader of Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics at Alterra, Wageningen UR,
12 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This presentation focus on the political context of open data publishing, methodological frameworks for estimating the impacts of open data and highlight the Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research as publication channel for open data sets. It will also build on personal reflections on publishing open data from Dr. Janssen’s own research career.
For more on the topic: http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/join-free-webinar-publishing-open-data-agricultural-research
By Jennifer Chapin, Programme Manager, AuthorAID at INASP.
1 March 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar will provide an overview of the AuthorAID website and programme of support, including the online courses in research writing, mentoring support and resources. The impact of the AuthorAID programme and the lessons learnt in low income countries will also be covered.
About Jennifer Chapin
Jennifer coordinates the communication of research at INASP, managing the AuthorAID programme to support the capacity of researchers in developing countries. Joining INASP in 2016, Jennifer spent the previous four years at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in London, a role which included developing research best practice and quality assurance, supporting the development of actuarial research with 300 researchers worldwide. Holding an MA in Education and International Development, she previously worked in education strategy for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and, since 2010, has also acted as director of a gender equality in education programme in Togo through a Canada-Togo partnership.
By Joy Paulson, the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University.
24 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, is a database that provides access to peer-reviewed, research journals in Agriculture and related-sciences without the need for internet connectivity. Currently TEEAL provides access to 450 research journals. Additionally, TEEAL also begun to provide access to non-journal research material that can be difficult to find and access. The first collection is research sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners and grantees.
TEEAL is delivered on a small-footprint computer that can be plugged into an institution’s local area network (LAN) or a stand-alone computer. When connected to an institution’s LAN, TEEAL is available across the institution to all members of the institutions community.
This webinar will introduce the TEEAL database, explore its collections, and demonstrate methods for browsing and effectively searching to identify the research the user needs. Eligibility for TEEAL and costs will also be discussed. There will be an opportunity for questions.
About Joy Paulson
Joy Paulson is the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University. She has been the Director of TEEAL for over 5 years, and she has taught international workshops on using TEEAL and other electronic resources, information literacy, scientific writing, and digital project management Africa and South Asia. Her previous work focused on developing digital library collections.
By by Kristin Kolshus, Information Management Specialist at FAO of the United Nations.
22 February 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of the AGORA programme for interested institutions in eligible countries. AGORA is one of the four Research4Life programmes. The webinar will present AGORA, a programme to provide free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. The webinar will focus on the eligibility, the registration, terms of use, and the types of resources covered.
About Kristin Kolshus
Kristin Kolshus is an Information Management Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Africa. She focuses on capacity development on access to scientific information, information management, and knowledge sharing, especially through AGORA and Research4Life.
By Thembani Malapela, Knowledge and Information Management Officer at FAO of the United Nations.
21 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is one of the many bibliographic databases used for locating agricultural information online, others examples include PubAg, TEEAL and CAB Abstracts.
AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data it retrieves related content across online information systems by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. Through AGRIS core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved thereby enriching the search results.
This webinar will present the AGRIS international initiative and partnership, looking at how AGRIS bibliographic data acts as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the fundamentals of AGRIS, give an overview of the AGRIS interface, and show how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
About Thembani Malapela
Thembani Malapela works as Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Currently, he is responsible for AGRIS user support and communications and in evaluating various ways of improving the AGRIS user experience.
By Chenjerai Mabhiza, Head of User Services at the University of Namibia
17 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
By Thomas Ingraham, Publishing Editor at F1000Research
15 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar covers three emerging themes in life science publishing, which will begin to influence the way in which the agricultural researchers share and access knowledge:
Faster dissemination: Publishing scientific articles is often a lengthy process, taking several months or even years from first submission. This prevents the research community and others from being able to act on new knowledge quickly, which is especially serious in emergency situations such as emerging infectious diseases. This webinar will cover two ways of tackling publication delays: preprint servers and post-publication peer review platforms.
Increased access & transparency: Open Access has helped remove access barriers to a vast body of scientific knowledge. Other important research outputs that have historically been difficult to access are starting to be published more frequently such as replications, data, code and referee reports.
Assessment of research: Researches are assessed by their publication record. Journal title and Impact Factor tend to be the default assessment criteria, though there is growing awareness of the disadvantages of these approaches, and alternative measures of quality and impact are gaining ground.
About Thomas Ingraham:
Tom is the Publishing Editor at F1000Research and has been involved with the publisher’s open science and editorial development since its inception in 2012. He manages several channels published on F1000Research, including those focussing on agriculture, and is the lead on several of the publisher’s open data-orientated projects.
Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This is especially important in agriculture and nutrition research where quick, unrestricted access to knowledge is crucial to solving urgent issues including food security, biodiversity conservation, and emerging infectious diseases in crops and animals.
This webinar will cover how the novel approaches taken by the publication venue Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development (OKAD) and the publishing platform it is hosted on, F1000Research, are addressing these issues. OKAD publishes academic articles, posters and slide presentations involving open knowledge projects within all areas of agriculture, nutrition and agro-biodiversity. By using F1000Research’s post-publication peer review platform, OKAD ensures rapid access to research within days of submission. Experts are invited to peer review upon publication, and their signed peer review reports are published alongside the article. All articles and any associated data and code are made publically available.
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities.
This webinar will present AGRIS international initiative and partnership in the usage of AGRIS bibliographic data as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the basic fundamentals of AGRIS, overview the AGRIS interface, and how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
Le programme Research4Life est un partenariat public-privé entre l’OMS, la FAO, le PNUE, l’OMPI, les Universités Cornell et Yale, des partenaires technologiques et plus de 200 éditeurs scientifiques représentés par l’Association internationale des éditeurs de la STM.
Le programme fournit aux pays à revenu plus faible et moyen, un accès gratuit ou à faible coût aux plus grandes collections de publications en ligne. Les bibliothèques admissibles au programme bénéficient de plus de 68 000 revues scientifiques internationales, livres et bases de données dans les domaines de la santé, de l’agriculture, de l’environnement et de la technologie.
L’objectif de Research4Life est de réduire l’écart des connaissances entre les pays industrialisés et les pays en développement.
Ce webinaire présente comment Research4Life fonctionne, comment le programme est structuré et qui peut se joindre au partenariat. Il donnera un aperçu de l’accès aux quatre programmes Hinari, AGORA, OARE et ARDI qui composent Research4Life.
De plus, il présentera brièvement la formation gratuite disponible sur les sites web sur les compétences des auteurs, les outils de gestion de référence mais aussi fournira des exemples de comment Research4Life fait la différence pour de nombreux établissements de recherche aujourd’hui.
With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF publishing tools, those tools are not very well suited for SKOS data, because they cannot support term-based searching and lookup.
This webinar presents Skosmos, an open source web-based SKOS vocabulary browser that uses a SPARQL endpoint as its backend. It can be used by e.g. libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto, operated by the National Library of Finland, is built using Skosmos.
Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has been developed by analyzing the results of repeated usability tests. All of the SKOS data is made available as Linked Data. A developer-friendly REST API is also available providing access for using vocabularies in other applications such as annotation systems.
We will describe what kind of infrastructure is necessary for Skosmos and how to set it up for your own SKOS data. We will also present examples where Skosmos is being used around the world.
Research4Life es una colaboración pública-privada de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la FAO, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), las bibliotecas de las universidades de Cornell y Yale, la Asociación Internacional STM y más de 200 editoriales internacionales. Brinda acceso libre o de bajo costo a contenido en línea revisado por pares académicos y profesionales en países en vías de desarrollo.
Instituciones elegibles y sus empleados y estudiantes tienes derecho a acceder a hasta 68,000 recursos de las principales revistas, bases de datos y del Internet en los ámbitos de la agricultura, las ciencias biológicas, medio ambientales y sociales relacionadas.
La meta de Research4Life es empoderar a instituciones científicas es países con bajos y medios ingresos y reducir las brechas en el conocimiento.
Este seminario mostrará el funcionamiento y la construcción de Research4Life, así como también quién puede participar en la colaboración. Presentará los cuatro programas de Research4Life: Hinari, AGORA, OARE y ARDI, que brindan acceso a los ámbitos mencionados. Además ofrecerá un resumen sobre capacitación proporcionada en la página web sobre competencias de la autoría, herramientas de la gestión de referencias etc. y proporcionará ejemplos de cómo Research4Life hace una diferencia para muchas instituciones científicas.
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and over 200 international scientific publishers. It provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Eligible libraries and their users benefit from online access to up to 68,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases in the areas of health, agriculture, environment and technology.
The overall goal of Research4Life is to empower research institutions in developing countries and to reduce knowledge gaps.
This webinar will illustrate how Research4Life works, how it is constructed and who can join the partnership. It will briefly present the four Research4Life programs Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI that provide access to the aforementioned research areas. Furthermore it will give an overview about free training provided on the website about authorship skills reference management tools etc. and provide examples of how Research4Life could make a difference for many research institutions already.
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
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Challenges and opportunities of linking Open Access and Open Science with the Sustainable Development Goals
1. Strengthening the
Sustainable Development Goals with
Open Access and Open Science
Challenges and Opportunities
Webinar in conjunction with the e-forum on "Sustainable Development Goals: The
Impact of Access to Information on our Societies". Sept. 15, 2015
Leslie Chan
University of Toronto Scarborough
2. Agenda
• Personal background and conceptual
approaches to Open Access and Open Science
• SDGs, the good and the bad
• Specific links between the SDGs and Open
Science and Open Access
• Policy considerations
5. Centre
Could Open Access change the current
power structure of global scientific
production and dissemination?
Periphery
Periphery
open access creates the
potential for new spaces for
collaboration and co-creation
of knowledge
6. Openness as a means to
development
What is the nature of “openness” and
its linkage to innovations for public
goods and how can this understanding
help formulate and support enabling
policies?
7. Meanings of Openness
• Free of cost barriers
• Free of permission barriers
• Free to share and re-use
• Rights to Research, meaning the rights to
participate in knowledge production and
meaning making
• Inclusive Participation (beyond expertise)
• Equitable Collaboration
• Promote Cognitive justice
8. “The right to science envisages the
scientific and technological
endeavor as a process that every
person is entitled to participate in—
a collective and collaborative
process that can help to unite a
frequently fragmented world.”
Lea Shaver, The Right to Science and Culture. 2010 WISC. L. REV. 121 (2010)
9. Open and Collaborative Science
in Development Network
Funding:
Coordination
http://www.ocsdnet.org
@ocsdnet
10. A proposition that open
models and peer-based
production, enabled by
pervasive network
technologies, non-market
based incentive structures
and alternative licensing
regimes, could result in
greater participation, access
and collaboration across
different social and
economic sectors.
11. This call for:
• Diverse empirical research on “openness” across
disciplinary boundaries
• Development of rich conceptual frameworks that
acknowledge the diversity of knowledge production,
forms of representations, and legitimation
• Understanding principles of technical and social
interoperability and the supporting institutional
structures
• Rethinking on funding support and incentive structures
• Policy Alignment between funders and development
organizations
12. Open Science as Inclusive Science
• Could OCS thinking and practices lead to a
more inclusive view of knowledge production
and legitimation?
• What kind of tools, standards, infrastructure,
institutions and policies would need to be
created or adapted to enable OCS and equal
participation of researchers from marginalized
regions?
13. • The network is supporting 12 sub-projects with
researchers from 15 countries
• 3 projects from Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 from the
Middle East, 1 from the Caribbean, 4 from Latin
America, and 3 from South, East and Central Asia
• Diverse topics: citizen science, open hardware,
open data, IP policy, climate change, food
security, public health, indigenous knowledge,
sociology of science…
14. Open
Science
Doing Science
Openly
& Collaboratively
Open Data
Open Access
Overarching Framework:
Governance and Sustainability ?
Practice Principles Policy
Knowledge as a
Public Good
Knowing Differently
Inclusion
Innovation
Funding
Infrastructure
Intellectual
Property
Incentive
Rights to Research
for Social Justice
17. Build resilient
infrastructure,
promote inclusive and
sustainable
industrialisation and
foster innovation
End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Promote peaceful
and inclusive
societies for
sustainable
development, provide
access to justice for
all and build effective,
accountable and
inclusive institutions
at all levels
18. Build resilient
infrastructure,
promote inclusive and
sustainable
industrialisation and
foster innovation
End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Promote peaceful
and inclusive
societies for
sustainable
development, provide
access to justice for
all and build effective,
accountable and
inclusive institutions
at all levels
Knowledge
Infrastructure
Knowledge
Poverty
Cognitive
Justice and
Rights to
Research
19. The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA)
20. The World of Scientific Output According to Thomson’s ISI
Science Citation Index
Data from 2002
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205
21. The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA)
How much of the
research output
from Africa are
relevant to the
problems faced
by Africans?
22. The need to build robust
and scalable Knowledge
Infrastructures to support
open research practices and
data sharing
23. “Knowledge infrastructures are complex
ecologies, adapting continuously to local and
global conditions and to changes in technology,
policy, and stakeholders”
Borgman, C. L., Darch, P. T., Sands, A. E., Pasquetto, I. V., Golshan, M. S., Wallis, J.
C., & Traweek, S. (2015). Knowledge infrastructures in science: data, diversity, and
digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 16(3-4), 207–227.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-015-0157-z
26. PLOS Biology | DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002204 July 23, 2015
If effective steps to secure the permanence of e-infrastructures are
not taken soon, we will risk having biological data, which are
currently organized and made available globally, once again
inaccessible. In the case of Brazil, speciesLink is in immediate peril of
disappearing. Brazil is one of the most diverse countries in the planet
[18], holding ~19% of all existing plant species [19]; thus, speciesLink
is not only of interest to Brazilian people and government anymore
but has acquired importance in the global scenario as well. Not only
will the hundreds of thousands of users of this system miss this
crucial research and policy infrastructure, but the social scientific
network linked to the e-infrastructure may lose strength.
27. Centre
What kind of Knowledge
Infrastructures do we need to
support truly universal Open
Science?
Periphery
Periphery
Global Knowledge Commons
Walled Garden
28. Open
Science
Doing Science
Openly
& Collaboratively
Open Data
Open Access
Overarching Framework:
Governance and Sustainability ?
Practice Principles Policy
Knowledge as a
Public Good
Knowing Differently
Inclusion
Innovation
Funding
Infrastructure
Intellectual
Property
Incentive
Rights to Research
for Social Justice
Open access and its potential
Participatory and collaborative
Challenging existing power hierarchy and reputation
Gaps in the SDGs
Inequality – inherently structural
Treating the symptoms, not the cause
Will open access change the current power structure of global scientific production and dissemination?
Hierarchy of knowledge created by an artifical systerm of “excellence” – that relegates science and scholarship that do not contribute to “world or international science” as being local and therefore irrelevant – and render invisible
Deeply structural = unequeal distribution of power and prestige
Research is essential for informing policy, especially policies related to development
The
right to science envisages the scientific and technological endeavor as
a process that every person is entitled to participate in—a collective
and collaborative process that can help to unite a frequently
fragmented world.
The OCSDNet is a newly aunched initiative funded the International Development Research Centre in Canada and the Department For International Development/UK –UKAID. The project is being jointly coordinated by iHub based in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough where I work.
The network project is supported by an international team of expert advisors and Cameron Neylon is a key advisor to the project – advisors play a key role in overseeing the overall directions of the project and in mentoring the grant receipients of the project subgrants
Out starting assumption, one that will be the subject of critical assessment, is that open approaches to knowledge production have the potential to radically increase the visibility, reproducibility, efficiency, transparency and relevance of scientific research, while expanding the opportunities for a broad range of actors to participate in the knowledge production process.This latter claim about increased and more equitable particiatpions of researchers from the global South or marginalizaed regions is indeed one of the areas of focus for the OCSDNet
.
Both IDRC and DFID UKAID are strong supporter of Open Access and Openess and the emerging notion of Open Development
Development agencies such as the World Bank, Department for International Development in the United Kingdom and UNESCO are paying close attention to the ‘openness’ agenda and are supporting a variety of initiatives and policy development in these areas. Most recently the Gates Foundation, and WHO
general hypothesis - that open models and systems enabled by the Internet and pervasive technologies (such as mobile telephony), coupled with alternative Intellectual Property Rights regimes, may result in democratizing and network effects, which can in turn lead to greater access, participation, and collaboration in a number of fields and sectors – thereby leading to improved well being for individuals and their communities
IDRC is funding research in interrogating the quality of openness and the effects on education, in science and knowledge production, government, and in social enterprise, particularly the creative industries
It is in this broad context that the OCSDNet project is supported.
what open access policy should look like in the developing world. This is likely to include open access publication; the recognition of a wider range of research outputs; repository and communication strategies that recognize this and which take account of the realities of available capacity and infrastructure. And – a challenging issue – how to change reward and recognition systems to bring them into line with the real strategies of governments and institutions?
importance of new governance frame- works that provide lasting arrangements for secured funding
The
right to science envisages the scientific and technological endeavor as
a process that every person is entitled to participate in—a collective
and collaborative process that can help to unite a frequently
fragmented world.
SDGs – statement of aspirations – a voluntary agreement with no legally binding obligations signing member states
Long term visions that is often lacking in national planning and policy driven by short term political gain
Goals supposed to be for all nations, not just developing countries, but often it is often vague as to who the instructions are directed? Who is supposed to be responsible for taking the actions? Who are supposed to be the acting agents?
Should not simply appeal to government and powerful agents for greater efforts, but should call for structural reforms of the global institutional order that conditions the options and incentive of these agents. --- Jean Claude Guedon re the institutions that priviledge knowledge of the Global North
The need to include strong human rights language – Lyon Declaration importance of the access to information as a human rights
Indicators? Incentives?
Three international funding bodies are giving seed cash of around US$4.5 million to establish the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA). The London-based biomedical charity the Wellcome Trust also hopes to transfer the management of millions of dollars in its research funds to the alliance. AESA’s other two backers are the UK Department for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. The idea is that AESA will be a platform for managing Africa-focused research programmes and a think tank to direct the continent’s science.
In addition to serving as a scientific think tank, AESA will manage more than $70 million in Africa- focused research programmes as part of its broader effort to build pan-African scientific capacity and leadership.
metrics of total publications and citations.
Top 15 countries account for 82% of total publications
Author with African institutional affiliation account for less than 1% of global output, and S. Africa has the highest output. The rest are “invisible”
Consequence of trying to publish in “International” journal results in neglect of important local problems and solutions that are appropriate for local conditions.
Three international funding bodies are giving seed cash of around US$4.5 million to establish the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA). The London-based biomedical charity the Wellcome Trust also hopes to transfer the management of millions of dollars in its research funds to the alliance. AESA’s other two backers are the UK Department for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. The idea is that AESA will be a platform for managing Africa-focused research programmes and a think tank to direct the continent’s science.
In addition to serving as a scientific think tank, AESA will manage more than $70 million in Africa- focused research programmes as part of its broader effort to build pan-African scientific capacity and leadership.
FAO, IFLA, COAR, EIFL
big issue, which is the financing of science, technology and innovation in Africa by African governments,” he says. The absence of commitments mean that heads of state will probably adopt it without much debate, he adds, and governments will be able to ignore it easily thereafter.
big issue, which is the financing of science, technology and innovation in Africa by African governments,” he says. The absence of commitments mean that heads of state will probably adopt it without much debate, he adds, and governments will be able to ignore it easily thereafter.
The time has come for countries to seriously support biodiversity information e-infrastruc- tures: some must support initial steps in implementation, whereas other countries (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, and many others) have the luxury of having facilities already in place. If effective steps to secure the permanence of e-infrastructures are not taken soon, we will risk having biological data, which are currently organized and made available globally, once again inaccessible. In the case of Brazil, speciesLink is in immediate peril of disappearing. Brazil is one of the most diverse countries in the planet [18], holding ~19% of all existing plant species [19]; thus, speciesLink is not only of interest to Brazilian people and government any- more but has acquired importance in the global scenario as well. Not only will the hundreds of thousands of users of this system miss this crucial research and policy infrastructure, but the social scientific network linked to the e-infrastructure may lose strength.
Will open access change the current power structure of global scientific production and dissemination?
Hierarchy of knowledge created by an artifical systerm of “excellence” – that relegates science and scholarship that do not contribute to “world or international science” as being local and therefore irrelevant – and render invisible
Deeply structural = unequeal distribution of power and prestige
what open access policy should look like in the developing world. This is likely to include open access publication; the recognition of a wider range of research outputs; repository and communication strategies that recognize this and which take account of the realities of available capacity and infrastructure. And – a challenging issue – how to change reward and recognition systems to bring them into line with the real strategies of governments and institutions?
importance of new governance frame- works that provide lasting arrangements for secured funding
The
right to science envisages the scientific and technological endeavor as
a process that every person is entitled to participate in—a collective
and collaborative process that can help to unite a frequently
fragmented world.