(Photo credit: RENIDA | Nicaragua)
FOCUS ON: setting priorities for access to online research ... in AGRICULTURE
Dear Reader!
Welcome to the March 2017 Newsletter, brought to you monthly by the AIMS team. This issue is pleased to provide you with a quick update of the latest activities related to Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) - one of the four programmes making up Research4Life (R4L) whose goal is to contribute to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, the current Newsletter offers some insights into several mission-related initiatives and events – in Information Management Sector (in Agriculture and beyond) – mainstreaming impact through open services, infrastructures, semantic products and points of view, at a global level...
Leveraging a number of milestones from the past year to become a Program of Excellence in providing access to online research in the development world in agriculture, in February 2017 the AGORA Team, in collaboration with the FAO Office in Nicaragua and R4L, organized an AGORA workshop in Managua, hosted by CENIDA (Centro Nacional de Información y Documentación Agropecuaria) in the premises of the Universidad Nacional Agraria.
On this occasion, the workshop focused exclusively on the use of AGORA, with a series of three one-day workshops tailored for three different kind of audiences.
On the 20th of February, workshop participants were researchers from several universities from all over the country. The day after, the workshop was targeted to researchers and policy makers from the two main government institutes devoted to agricultural and veterinary sciences research: INTA/CNIA (Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria and Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Biología) and IPSA (Instituto de Protección y Sanidad Agropecuaria). The last day focused on the RENIDA (Red Nicaragüense de Información y Documentación Agraria) and its members, from universities and research institutes all over the country.
Up to 70 participants were trained in these three one-day workshops about AGORA and on how to get the best results from its use.
To get more acquainted with the AGORA programme (the eligibility, the registration, terms of use, and the types of resources covered), please view:
@ Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA on YouTube) and
@ Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA on SlideShare).
POSTSCRIPTUM:
@ "Everything else can wait, but not Agriculture", - Jawaharlal Nehru (AgriXiv Home).
@ "The ability to access accurate, timely and representative label information for foods ... is critical for our research", - Neal Hooker.
@ " Share, don’t just like... Speak up! Ask your local and national authorities to engage in initiatives ...", - United Nations (UN).
HIGHLIGHTS*
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Explore Access Agriculture : agricultural training videos in local languages… |
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Love Your Data International Week 2017 … |
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INRA2025 : Open Science priority, Data sharing and much more … |
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AgriXiv Preprints for Agriculture and Allied Sciences … |
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GODAG-IGAD Soil Data Working Group is launched … |
BUZZWORDS : A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE ... STAY INFORMED
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Buzzwords are actively fragmenting into different mission-related initiatives and events mainstreaming impact through shared experiences and lessons learned, projects and programmes, services and infrastructures, implementation strategies and capitalization of good practices … and much more, at a global level. Actually, the current trends, or rather strategic thematic areas in Information-, Knowledge-, and (Research) Data Management are inextricably tied and one shouldn't take precedence over the other. AIMS continues to encourage the Information Management communities to build solutions with Open and findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) in mind from the outset as this is key in creating interoperability among distributed trusted information infrastructures. |
AROUND THE CORNER ...
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1. Core certification: Data Seal of Approval (DSA) The DSA Board has announced the availability of the new Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements. Applicants are now invited to apply for the new Seal. 2. Extended certification: Nestor seal / DIN 31644: Criteria for Trustworthy Digital Archives 3. Formal certification: ISO 16363: Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories @ European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories @ RDA Interest Group - RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories |
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LEARN Glossary has been compiled from the efforts of others and due accreditation to the various sources has been recorded throughout. The terms and definitions selected have been chosen to fit best with the LEARN Project’s own aims. Suggestions for new terms or alternative definitions for existing ones can be sent during the lifetime of the LEARN Project (until end May 2017) to info@learn-rdm.eu |
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Tell UN about your actions to achieve the global goals by using the hashtag #globalgoals on social networks... |
UN Global SDG Indicators Database platform provides access to data compiled through the UN System in preparation for the Secretary-General's annual report on Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, global objectives expected to guide the actions of the international community over the next 15 years (2016-2030)... |
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FAO - Family Farming Knowledge Platform promotes evidence-based decision making by collecting and disseminating information on policy information (in over 130 countries) through a freely accessible web-based tool. The repository presents itself as a map with the different countries coloured according to the coverage of their policies... |
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has been created to store, manage and update concepts, terms and definitions related to the various fields of FAO’s activity. The idea is to offer a single search window for all glossaries, in one or several languages, as a mechanism to enhance the exchange of information and facilitate communication. FAO TERM PORTAL is indexed by BARTOC.org – Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications... |
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FAO-AIMS VEST/AgroPortal Map of Standards This global map of standards - relevant to exchange of agriculture and nutrition data - is the continuation of the FAO VEST Registry under the GODAN Action umbrella. Search/browse and contribute on the AIMS portal... |
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is a free and open global database for farming and gardening knowledge. Here you can find community created Guides that describe how to grow a Crop based on specific environmental conditions and growing practices. @ Open is at Our Core... |
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OPEN FILM CORNER
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FAO has developed a common vision and an integrated approach to sustainable food and agriculture. FAO Policy Series describe the FAO policy work, including key policy messages... |
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GODAN Documentary web series meet individuals around the world who are on the front line of how technology and data are reshaping agriculture to combat food insecurity and improve global nutrition. The series are created with farmOS: open source web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping... |
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A CTA video: The big wins of open data for agriculture and nutrition explains the potential benefits of Open Data for agricultural and rural development and the steps to deliver them. It also explains who can benefit from open data...
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Open Data Portals: 9 Solutions and How they Compare (registered webinar, Safe Software). Get a comparison of CKAN, Socrata, ArcGIS Open Data and other top open data solutions. Plus get answers to best practice questions such as: Which datasets are important to share? Which file formats should the data be shared in? How often should the data get updated? And overall, how can we ensure success with our open data portal?.. |
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Adoption of the RDA Data Citation of Evolving Data Recommendation to Electronic Health Records (registered webinar, Safe Software, RDA WG-DC). The RDA Working Group on Data Citation (WG-DC) is now scheduling a series of Webinars presenting the pilots that are implementing the RDA Data Citation WG recommendations, providing an overview of the issues identified, design decisions taken, and demonstrating the implementations achieved... |
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Let us know about high-quality videos created by organizations highlighting thematic areas relevant to information management (Open Data, Open Access, Open Science, Big Data, interoperability issues, FAIR data etc.), agriculture, forestry, fisheries and related themes (food security, land use, environment, etc.). To submit your video, please send a file transfer to AIMS@fao.org
OPEN READING CORNER
CONTRIBUTE, SEARCH, BROWSE, DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY FROM:
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# Items in E-LIS may be browsed by the following: Author -- Subject -- Countries -- Year -- Conference -- Conference by name |
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# Items in OKAD - F1000Research may be browsed by the following: Articles -- Posters -- Slides |
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# Register / Log in to read / download full access articles from AGORA online channel |
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