The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) - - jointly published (October 2017) by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe - - tracks the state...
During International Open Access Week 2017 (22-26 October, Gaborone, Botswana) the African Open Science Platform would like to deliver a series of free webinars (25, 26, 27...
[Download as a PowerPoint slide; source*] The International Wheat Initiative (IWI) has identified easy access and interoperability of all wheat-related data as a top priority for the...
How do we measure the performance of a development organisation/project? Most will say: “Easy… By measuring our impact”...Then, the question is “How do we measure our...
(Image source: ANDS Data Citation)In the context of Data Management practices, citing data by means of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) has been increasingly recognized as a lynchpin in...
Research4Life programme has recently launched its new “Stories of Change campaign” !The first story is about the role of AGORA in the Universities’ Central Library...
(Image sources: METADATA 2020 initiative & UKSG Conference 2017)Is it possible to achieve high quality metadata at the institutional level? A new ambitious METADATA 2020...
The two-day Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) pre-meeting took place on 17-18 September 2017 in Montreal prior to the 10th Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary meeting (19 - 21 September...
STARBIOS2 (Structural Transformation to Attain Responsible BIOSciences) is a project (2016-2020) funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. STARBIOS2 aims to...
DEAR AIMS USERS AND VISITORS !The past WEBINAR@AIMS : Linked Data Competency Index : Mapping The Field for Teachers And Learners took a walk through the Linked Data...