information management

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    Benefits of strengthening AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia highlighted in Moscow

      A regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia” was held by FAO in collaboration with the LandPortal Foundation (the Netherlands) in Moscow, 27-28 June 2019, hosted by the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL). ...
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    25-29 March 2018: APAN Join Session on Web API, Open Data & Interoperability

    From March 25 to March 29 takes place the 45th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) in Singapore. In the context of the APAN meeting the AgGateway Global Network, GODAN and the APAN Agriculture WG are organizing a joint session on Web API, Open Data and Interoperability.  Access to field and ...
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    DIGITAL SCIENCE : smart support at every stage of the research cycle

    Digital Science is a leading global  technology company serving the needs of scientific research. Digital Science provides software that makes the research process simpler and more efficient so that everyone can work smart and discover more. Digital Science helps solve problems for researchers, institutions, publishers and funders._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________“We still have ...
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    ICTs for Resilience : ongoing online forum

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and e-Agriculture are carrying out an online forum discussion on "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Resilience". How can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects?Are there any specific constraints in the use of ICTs for resilience?What are the ...
  • RIOXX: the pragmatic development of a metadata application profile

    Developed by Paul Walk and colleagues at EDINA, RIOXX is designed to provide a mechanism to help UK institutional repositories comply with the national funders' requirements for reporting on open access outputs from public funding. RIOXX focuses on applying consistency to the metadata fields used to record research funder and ...
  • eForum Webinar on Sustainable Development and Open Access by Jean-Claude Guédon

    The e-forum is an online event is a joint effort by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide a forum for institutions and individuals to learn more about the ...
  • Webinar on the F1000Research approach to Open Science publishing

    This webinar is part of the activities related to the Pathway Open Access : Repositories and Publishers, and organized by the CIARD Community.About the webinarThe Open Science journal F1000Research was launched in 2012 in order to address many of the shortcomings of conventional life science publishing, particularly those that exacerbate ...
  • Islandora : Managing digital assets with a best-practices framework

    The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of Islandora and its solution packs for the management of digital assets. Islandora is based on Drupal, Fedoraand Solr and enables its users to work with different data types (such as image, video, and pdf) and knowledge domains (such as ...