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Submit your paper to the "Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures"

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

CIRAD confirms its support of the principle of open access to knowledge

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...

Are you an AIMS member? Then have your profile included in AgriVIVO

As announced yesterday, the AgriVIVO 1.0 portal has been launched, take a look at the post by Valeria Pesce. AgriVIVO & AIMS The data currently collected in AgriVIVO are about people, organizations and events, linked with geographic locations and areas of expertise. AIMS is one of the participating communities and data providers (for a list of all the data providers currently contributing...

Towards better networking and collaboration in agriculture: AgriVIVO 1.0 launched

To enable better networking and collaboration in agriculture, AgriVIVO, managed by the GFAR Secretariat and developed jointly with Cornell University and FAO, has been launched: http://www.agrivivo.net. AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities.

SML2OD2013 for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics : call for papers now open!

The 1st International Workshop on "Semantic Machine Learning and Linked Open Data (SML2OD2013) for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics" will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), 21-25 October 2013, in Sydney, Australia. Historical and spatial big data from the environmental and agricultural domains already exist in the modern...

Agrifeeds – A closer look at the Drupal modules (part 2)

Two Drupal modules have been written purposely for Agrifeeds, so to better understand what is happening behind the scenes, they will be briefly described. Both modules can work on any other Drupal website, as they have been designed for a generic use. Automatic Tagger Automatic Tagger was born out of the necessity of collecting more data about the country a particular feed item was about. It...

Very successful German workshop on Linked Open Data in Agriculture

On April 23 and 24, BLE (the federal agency for agriculture and food) organized a workshop on linked open data in agriculture. More than 70 practitioners from federal agencies, agencies of the "Laender"  and research institutions came together to discuss opportunities and challenges of linked open data.