The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open forum engaged in metadata innovation and support the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
Following the first successful solar flight around the world, the Solar Impulse Foundation is now selecting clean and profitable solutions to environmental issues.
The Linux Plumbers Conference
(LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC
brings together the top developers working on the plumbing of Linux -
kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc. - and gives them
three days to work together on core design problems. The conference is
divided into several working sessions focusing on different plumbing
topics, as well as a general paper track.
The ZAP Group Australia Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing high-quality software, documentation and ebook publications. This Web server provides the public face of the ZAP Group Australia’s activities.
The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an open standard for describing analysis workflows and tools in a way that makes them portable and scalable across a variety of software and hardware environments, from workstations to cluster, cloud, and high performance computing (HPC) environments. CWL is designed to meet the needs of data-intensive science, such as Bioinformatics, Medical Imaging, Astronomy, High Energy Physics, and Machine Learning.
Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research is a global policy institute focused on weapons of mass destruction and other strategic weapons, security and technology, conventional arms control, gender and disarmament, space security
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Visit our website and find out how you can support us.
The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a national facility for preserving and distributing oceanographic and marine data. Staff have direct experience of marine data collection and analysis and they work alongside information technology specialists to ensure that the biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data handled are documented and stored for current and future use.
The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) aims to provide the most authoritative, publicly available bathymetry data sets for the world’s oceans.