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Join us & Learn more about Searching Techniques in AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture!

A new series of free AGORA WEBINARS (in English, Français, Español) will take place in December 2018 ! Register by 28 November 2018 & Join us to learn more about information seeking and retrieval of AGORA content for topics that match your areas of interest! FURTHER DETAILS HERE

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

The AGROVOC Team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened the first meeting of AGROVOC Editors and stakeholders held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2018. The objectives of this meeting were to reinforce the AGROVOC editorial community, and to set priorities for the next few years for the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus. READ ON MORE HERE.

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Data & Information?

FAO - AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology) is a free of charge service that provides access and visibility to bibliographic data on research papers, reports, multimedia material, grey literature and other content types in agricultural and related sciences. LEARN MORE about AGRIS

AGORA : Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

AGORA is one of the five programmes making up Research4Life. The other four programmes are Hinari, OARE, GOALI and ARDI, covering research in health, environment, law, development and innovation. LEARN MORE about AGORA

FAIR data use-cases from a lot of experience in working with data...

Within the framework of the Research Data Alliance Plenary (RDA)11: "From Data to Knowledge" (21 - 23 March, 2018, Berlin, Germany), the RDA Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) meeting was dedicated to the discussion of What does FAIR mean for a community like agri-food? and What does it do about it? READ MORE HERE…

AIMS achievements in 2017

This AIMS e-newsletter features some latest AIMS achievements and milestones in 2017. Highlights on Semantics ... on the provision of Access to Data and Knowledge … on Capacity Development ... on Open Data ... Find out more here.

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

To face the challenge of data interoperability in Wheat Research Community, members of the RDA - IGAD - Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group published the Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines on how to create, manage and share data related to wheat. Find out more ...

欢迎访问AIMS

AIMS是有关获取农业标准、技术和最佳实践的信息门户。同时它也是一个联系全世界信息管理工作者的一个论坛，基于此讨论农业信息的开放获取和开放数据。AIMS是协作和互操作性的坚决拥护者。

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Blog Post19 Nov 2018
Advancing the use of Earth Observation Data for critical issues relating to Land, Climate, Food and Nutrition in AFRICA
The GEO Highlights 2017-2018 Report - published by Group on Earth Observations (GEO) - showcases some exemplary use-cases gathered from across GEO’s Work Programme activities, and represents...
Blog Post16 Nov 2018
From the AGRIS & AGORA Workshop in Malawi on enhancing accessibility and visibility of scientific publications in sub-Saharan Africa
Photo: AGRIS & AGORA Workshop, 1-2 November 2018, in Lilongwe, Malawi Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN is working with several partners to facilitate awareness,...
Blog Post15 Nov 2018
The State of Open Data 2018 - Figshare Report
Figshare’s annual report, The State of Open Data 2018, looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry...
Blog Post14 Nov 2018
First Call for Papers: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA in a Digital World 2019
First Call for Papers Biographical Data in a Digital World 2019, Varna (Bulgaria), 5-6 September 2019. The conference will be held in conjunction with Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing...

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A free e-learning programme on open data is ongoing to help strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition. This free e-learning course is developed as part of the capacity development activities within the GODAN Action project. The e-course - available through Moodle for free - focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data.

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Highlights

Join us & Learn more about Searching Techniques in AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture!

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Data & Information?

AGORA : Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

FAIR data use-cases from a lot of experience in working with data...

AIMS achievements in 2017

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

欢迎访问AIMS

News

Advancing the use of Earth Observation Data for critical issues relating to Land, Climate, Food and Nutrition in AFRICA

From the AGRIS & AGORA Workshop in Malawi on enhancing accessibility and visibility of scientific publications in sub-Saharan Africa

The State of Open Data 2018 - Figshare Report

First Call for Papers: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA in a Digital World 2019

Training Activities

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