Global Forum on Agricultural Research's (GFAR) commitment to open access to agricultural research data and information has been captured in a recent news item.GFAR has been contributing to...
The CIARD partners and the GODAN partners are meeting for the GODAN-CIARD Consultation on ‘Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development’, underway in Rome from the 22nd to the 24th April, 2014. Some of the objectives of the consultation are:
The Global GODAN/CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development will take place at FAO of the United Nations headquarters in Rome, Italy, between 22nd and 24th April. The final...
The June issue of the AIMS Newsletter is now available. The monthly spotlight is dedicated to the ontology plug-in recently developed by the Hasselt University. Highlighted this month are the latest on VocBench, AGRIS, AIMS, CIARD, AgriDrupal, but also LINQ 2013, aWhere, DAAN, EIFL-PLIP and REDIAGRO.
CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) is the global registry that aims to increase the visibility and use of web-based services and information resources in agricultural research for development, like document repositories, OAI providers, bibliographic databases, RSS feeds and many more. All services are described in detail and categorized acc
New in E-LIS, the paper: ...
The Global CIARD Consultation is ongoing this week, from Monday 6 until Thursday 9 May, 2013. The event is organized, on behalf of the partners, by CGIAR at ILRI in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
Objectives of the consultation are:
As part of the Linked Open Data @ AIMS, Tom Baker, chief information officer (CIO) of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), will hold the free webinar "Linking your resources to the Data Web" on Tuesday, December 4, from 4:00-5:00 pm (Rome time).
To promote “openness” in agricultural information and knowledge management, a special session with a theme ‘Openness in Agriculture Information and Knowledge Sharing” ...