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  • IAALD XIIIth World Congress

    The renewed worldwide interest in agriculture and in issues relating to food crises in different parts of the world has highlighted the need for providing quality information to actors in rural development. Scientific and Technical Information Specialists can help provide this information by sharing and pooling their knowledge and know-how.
    This Congress, organized by IAALD and Agropolis International, will promote fruitful exchanges between information specialists and the actors of rural development who face key challenges in agriculture.
     
    Organization (owner / creator): 
    IAALD and Agropolis International
    Dates: 
    04/26/2010 - 04/29/2010
    City: 
    Montpellier
    Country: 
    France
    URL for more info: 
    http://iaald2010.agropolis.fr/

  • D4Science World User Meeting

    D4Science World User Meeting

     

    Draft agenda (in PDF format)

     

    Organization (owner / creator): 
    D4Science project
    Dates: 
    11/25/2009 - 11/26/2009
    City: 
    Rome
    Country: 
    Italy
    URL for more info: 
    http://www.d4science.eu/worldusermeeting

  • Technical Course on Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgLRs)

    The goal of the 4-day Technical Course is to provide developers of learning content, tools and repositories with technical expertise necessary to connect to federations of learning object repositories such as Organic.Edunet, the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) or ARIADNE, using best practice and state-of-the-art technologies. Focus will be given to owners of existing content collections, content development and organization tools/processes, and repositories of agricultural and rural interest.

    Organization (owner / creator): 
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    Organic.Edunet Targeted Project
    eContentplus Programme
    ASPECT Best Practice Network
    Dates: 
    11/02/2009 - 11/05/2009
    City: 
    Budapest
    Country: 
    Hungary
    URL for more info: 
    http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4

  • Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment 3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'09)

    AIM & TOPICSThe aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment of MTSR'09 is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural and food & environment knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective.

    Dates: 
    09/30/2009 - 10/02/2009
    City: 
    Milan
    Country: 
    Italy
    URL for more info: 
    http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/MTSR09/index.html

  • WEBAGRIS users workshop

     

    Organization (owner / creator): 
    Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    Dates: 
    09/23/2009 - 09/25/2009
    City: 
    Rome
    Country: 
    Italy
    URL for more info: 
    http://aims.fao.org/en/events/webagris-users-workshop

  • Knowledge Share Fair

    The Share Fair aims to be a positively interactive event, providing the possibility for Staff to showcase their experiences in knowledge sharing and at the same time learning from each other. The FAO Atrium will be transformed into a colourful market place. Market stalls and booths, along with workshops and short presentation sessions aim to provide an ideal opportunity for lively discussions and getting to know people.

    Organization (owner / creator): 
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    Bioversity International
    WFP
    IFAD
    Dates: 
    01/20/2009 - 01/22/2009
    City: 
    Rome
    Country: 
    Italy
    URL for more info: 
    http://www.sharefair.net/

  • Workshop on Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and Rural Development (AgroLT 2008), September 19, 2008

    In the field of agricultural education, specifications and standards produced in the area of agricultural learning technologies have not yet been widely adopted and implemented. Sharing, preserving and reusing learning information among a large number of different systems and repositories would not only lead to wider dissemination of learning technology standards for educational applications but also help reaching a potential consensus of related work by comparing and harmonizing similar/competing approaches.
    Dates: 
    09/19/2008
    City: 
    Athens
    Country: 
    Greece
    URL for more info: 
    http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/agrolt/2008/

  • FAO/ICT-KM Knowledge Workshop on Knowledge Sharing

    With the successful completion of the Knowledge Workshop earlier this year, we are happy to announce a new opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge sharing techniques. As in the previous workshop organized by the Institutional Knowledge Sharing project of the ICT-KM, this workshop will be divided into three phases, including both online and face-to-face components. For more information and to register for a limited number of seats, please review the attached flyer.
    Dates: 
    09/08/2008 - 04/11/2009
    City: 
    Rome
    Country: 
    Italy
    URL for more info: 
    http://ictkm.cgiar.org/downloads/pdf/2ndKSFlyer.pdf

  • Special Session of the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative

    A "Special Session of the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative: semantic problems and semantic solutions in agricultural knowledge and information products" will take place as part of the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference. The aim of this session is to showcase practical applications of semantic tools. The contributions will be of specific relation and relevance to agriculture and related subject areas and are not expected to be generic papers about semantic tools.
    Dates: 
    08/24/2008 - 08/27/2008
    City: 
    Tokyo
    Country: 
    Japan
    URL for more info: 
    http://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/index.htm

  • Agricultural Learning Repositories E-Conference (May 2008)

    Making learning resources available online on a global scale, could be an enabler for the development and welfare of agricultural and rural populations. One mean to achieve this aim, is the development and promotion of a global infrastructure that will facilitate sharing and reusing of learning resources on topics related to agricultural and rural development. To this end, the experience of stakeholders that are involved in the development and operation of agricultural learning repositories would be of extreme value.
    Dates: 
    04/24/2008 - 06/15/2008
    City: 
    Athens
    Country: 
    Greece
    URL for more info: 
    http://aglr.aua.gr/node/24