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CABEI’s New Blue Bond Taxonomy

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) incorporated a new blue bond taxonomy into its existing green bond framework. The taxonomy is based on the “Blue Bond Reference Paper Investments” and the “Sustainable Ocean Principles” published by the United Nations Global Compact. It is also aligned with both the Climate Bonds Initiative’s Green Taxonomy […]

Integrating the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus into ADS Search and Discovery

Currently, the keywords provided by publishers are being used to search the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics. Furthermore, no single vocabulary has been consistently used throughout the indexed literature in ADS. To overcome these challenges, ADS decided to adopt the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) as […]

Healthcare Should Learn From How Other Industries Manage Data

When it comes to technology and data management, the healthcare industry has lagged behind other industries. As healthcare continues to struggle with its data management and usage, stakeholders should learn from the data improvement strategies implemented by other industries. Healthcare could glean lessons from data management strategies implemented by the military, aerospace, and aviation sector. […]

The Observatory Against Greenwashing launches Independent Science-Based Taxonomy

A coalition of experts and NGOs, the Observatory Against Greenwashing, launched its Independent Science-Based Taxonomy. The initiative aims to bring clarity to investors after the European Union (EU) labeled gas-fired power, nuclear, the burning of trees, intensive logging, and other harmful activities as “sustainable” in the EU Taxonomy. The Independent Science-Based Taxonomy duplicates the EU […]

New Publication Explains Key Nuclear Safety and Security Terminology

There are more than 130 publications in the IAEA Safety Standards Series, and more than 40 publications in the IAEA Nuclear Security Series covering specific aspects of nuclear safety and security. The new IAEA Nuclear Safety and Security Glossary is a collection of definitions and explanations of technical terms used in the IAEA safety standards […]

Here is How to Solve the Agricultural Sector Data Problem

Policy reforms and innovative technologies can make a significant difference in correcting the distortions in food and nutrition security, skewed distribution of farmer incomes, natural disasters, and climate change. These innovative technologies need the right data, for the right purpose at the right time to perform up to their potential. However, agriculture data is humongous, […]

Taxonomy for Building Explainability into Machine-Learning Models

Drawing on years of fieldwork, MIT researchers have developed a taxonomy to help developers design features that will be easier for their target audience to understand. To build the taxonomy, the researchers defined properties that make features interpretable for five types of users, from artificial intelligence experts to the people affected by a machine-learning model’s […]

Thailand Speeds Up the Classification of Economic Activities Having Environment Impact

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is accelerating the issuance of standards to classify economic activities based on their environmental impact. The Thailand Taxonomy standards are aimed at aiding green financing as companies transition to the government’s BCG (Bio-Circular-Green) economic model for sustainable development. It will also help combat the increasing effects of global climate change. […]

Linked Open Data Project by UvA Library and CREATE

Hardly any libraries or publishers publish research data as Linked Open Data (LOD) to make research data available as LOD. To overcome this lacuna, the UvA Library and the UvA CREATE Lab have been working together on a LOD pilot. Over the past year, the pilot project has been making three existing datasets – Cinema […]

EBUCorePlus – A New Standard for Media Enterprises

EBUCorePlus is an ontology defined by EBU Members for media enterprises. It follows up on two long-standing EBU ontologies: EBUCore and CCDM (Class Conceptual Data Model). The two were merged and revised to develop EBUCorePlus, a new standard that can fully replace its predecessors. EBUCorePlus inherits both the long-lasting reliability of EBUCore and the end-to-end […]