AIMS offers access to free webinars to all interested parties on a variety of information, data and knowledge. Topics include: open access, open data, research data management, knowledge information systems, data curation, metadata, linked open data, big data, open tools and standards supporting stewardship of information and data in agriculture, along with other domains.

Webinars

  • AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages

    The webinar titled  “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages” was held on 5 December and was intended to highlight FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, and how it can impact multilingual research through AGORA.Research4Life recently integrated AGROVOC as a “reference source” in the AGORA collection. This webinar ...
  • Unlocking AGORA: Access, Utilization, and Troubleshooting for Enhanced Research

    The "Unlocking AGORA: Access, Utilization, and Troubleshooting for Enhanced Research" webinar was held on 19 September 2023. It was intended for both prospective and present users of the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) platform. AGORA is a powerful digital platform that gives professionals and scholars access to a wide ...
  • Access to Scientific Information in the Global South: Partnering for Action

    The FAO Science and Innovation Forum side event “Access to Scientific Information in the Global South: Partnering for Action,” took place on 12 October 2022.The panel was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Health Organization (WHO), Elsevier ...
  • What is new in AGRIS: Session 1, AGRIS Virtual Annual Conference 2022

    Imma Subirats introduces AGRIS and its composition, outlines the evolution of its content and its usage statistics before focusing on the latest developments, including the partnership with ICARDA, findings from the AGRIS data provider survey, new and upcoming publications and capacity development activities, both completed and planned. Imma also highlights ...
  • RDA/IGAD Webinar: Supporting Open Data in agriculture with F1000Research

    The fourth webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 8 September. The webinar, titled 'Supporting Open Data in agriculture with F1000Research' featured Guillaume Wright from F1000Research.  F1000Research is an open research publishing platform with ...
  • RDA/IGAD Webinar: Introduction to the Georgian Farmers' Association

    The third webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 14 July. The webinar, titled Introduction to the Georgian Farmers' Association featured Ketevan Gogotchuri from the Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA).  The Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA) was founded in 2012. ...
  • RDA/IGAD Webinar: Agricultural market dynamics based on data evidence

    The second webinar as part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 30 June with more than 25 participants. The webinar, titled Agricultural market dynamics based on data evidence, featured Luiza Petrosyan from the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia. Throughout ...