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AIMS.FAO Team achievements in 2018... and where are we heading

3 “A” KNOWLEDGE SHARING TOOLS in agriculture & related sectors: AGORA, AGROVOC, AGRIS... & more. Take a look at AIMS.FAO Team achievements in 2018 and where are we heading... And, thanks again for your interest!

Free AGORA e-Course February 2019 Edition. Call for Applications - REGISTER NOW

Enroll to this course (in ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH) right now ! REGISTRATIONS will be open till 27 January 2019. AGORA is one of the five programmes making up Research4Life. REGISTER for AGORA e-course HERE !

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

The AGROVOC Team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened the first meeting of AGROVOC Editors and stakeholders held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2018. The objectives of this meeting were to reinforce the AGROVOC editorial community, and to set priorities for the next few years for the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus. READ ON MORE HERE.

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Data & Information?

FAO - AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology) is a free of charge service that provides access and visibility to bibliographic data on research papers, reports, multimedia material, grey literature and other content types in agricultural and related sciences. LEARN MORE about AGRIS

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

To face the challenge of data interoperability in Wheat Research Community, members of the RDA - IGAD - Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group published the Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines on how to create, manage and share data related to wheat. Find out more ...

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.هي بوابة بمعلومات حول (والوصول إلى) معايير والتكنولوجيا والممارسات الجيدة. كما أنها منتدى للربط العمال إدارة المعلومات في جميع أنحاء العالم لمناقشة والوصول المفتوح والبيانات المفتوحة (AIMS) معايير إدارة المعلومات الزراعية

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Blog Post18 Jan 2019
Blockchain technology on support of Agri-Food Supply Chain : Towards Data Quality & Trusted Data Governance
(Image source: UNDP; Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India) ...
Blog Post17 Jan 2019
Call for Papers: IFLA AFRICA Section: LIBRARIES AS CHANGE AGENTS (Deadline Proposals by 8 February 2019)
African Libraries play a central role as in today’s information led economic, social and cultural development. Different types of libraries serve as “motors” that drive the...
Blog Post16 Jan 2019
Vocabularies for Semantic Interoperability in Agriculture: discover Agrisemantics map with up to 400 standards for data exchange
Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies - seen as agreed “world views” for interoperability - are key in ensuring we can make better meaning, management...
Blog Post15 Jan 2019
Interested in obtaining Creative Commons Certificate 2019? SCHOLARSHIP offerings will be officially announced when they are available!
The Creative Commons (CC) Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. CC plans on adding new fields of practice, launching a certificate...

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Training Activities

A free e-learning programme on open data is ongoing to help strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition. This free e-learning course is developed as part of the capacity development activities within the GODAN Action project. The e-course - available through Moodle for free - focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data.

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AIMS.FAO Team achievements in 2018... and where are we heading

Free AGORA e-Course February 2019 Edition. Call for Applications - REGISTER NOW

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Data & Information?

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

مرحبا بكم في AIMS

News

Blockchain technology on support of Agri-Food Supply Chain : Towards Data Quality & Trusted Data Governance

Call for Papers: IFLA AFRICA Section: LIBRARIES AS CHANGE AGENTS (Deadline Proposals by 8 February 2019)

Vocabularies for Semantic Interoperability in Agriculture: discover Agrisemantics map with up to 400 standards for data exchange

Interested in obtaining Creative Commons Certificate 2019? SCHOLARSHIP offerings will be officially announced when they are available!

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