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ITO Director Dr. Karen Payne presented on the progress of the Research Data Alliance Global Open Research Commons International Model Working Group at the International Conference on Research Infrastructure in Brno, Czech Republic, on October 20th, 2022. Occurring every two years, the International Conference on Research Infrastructure (ICRI) is an opportunity for research infrastructure stakeholders… Read More »Research Commons Benchmarks & Interoperability at ICRI 2022

The Polar Data Discovery Enhancement Research (POLDER) Polar Federated Search (PFS) portal was created for the polar research community to make Arctic and Antarctic data more readily available, enabling anyone and everyone interested in polar data to search across a growing number of polar data repositories with a single query. PFS is an open source… Read More »November POLDER updates: Maps & Best Practices

ITO staff Melinda Minch and Chantelle Verhey are co-authors on the recently endorsed Science On Schema.Org (SOSO) Guidance documents version 1.3.0. This new output provides guidance for semantically enriching metadata that describes Earth science data. Metadata is data about data, and is often considered a description of a parcel of information, such as a dataset.… Read More »ESIP endorses ITO coauthored metadata guidance