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Thembani Malapela - 30 avr. 2013
The CGIAR has recently announced the progress made towards its openness agenda and reports that the draft CGIAR draft Open Access policy is now in wide circulation among its Research Centres, Research programs, donors and partners.The CGIAR Open Access Policy also plots a clear timeframe for moving the process towards open access forward.The policy is influenced by DFID, the WorldBank and...
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Imma Subirats - 29 avr. 2013
The G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture will take place from 29-30 April in Washington, D.C. You can now participate virtually by going to one of the following websites:
USDA Live website
World Bank's website
Data.gov
Download the program
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Thembani Malapela - 29 avr. 2013
The Development and Management of E-repositories course is now available online on the Ocean Teacher platform.The course addresses the expertise and resources required to establish and manage sustainable repositories and the course topics were reviewed here.
The AgriOcean DSpace component
The AgriOcean DSpace component covers the materials on how to install the tool, common errors experienced...
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Diane Le Hénaff - 29 avr. 2013
A consultation to evaluate the VOA3R platform has been launched. You are invited to fill the questionnaire to help us to improve this major VOA3R outcome. The survey questionnaire is available:
English
French
The VOA3R project comes to an end and your feedback is important for evaluating the platform!
More information at the VOA3R website
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Gudrun Johannsen - 29 avr. 2013
Please be informed that the search module in VocBench sandbox is temporarily not functioning. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
The AGROVOC/VocBench Team
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Imma Subirats - 26 avr. 2013
Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories,
Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference
November 19-22, 2013
Aim and Scope
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CIARD Movement - 26 avr. 2013
This week CIARD informed on its website the news that the Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) has signed a partnership agreement to foster open archives.
CIRAD is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues. The agreement was signed at the Académie des...