AIMS

Very successful final evaluation of agINFRA

27/03/2015

On Friday,  March 27, the final evaluation of the agINFRA project took place in the premises of DG Cnect in Brussels.  The evaluators gave a very positive judgement about the project saying that excellent work has been done with the European funds. They were particularly impressed by the sustainability plans for ...

New vacancy: Director of GODAN Secretariat

13/03/2015

GODAN is an initiative that seeks to support global efforts to make data relevant to agriculture and nutrition available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.The GODAN Secretariat will drive and deliver a range of key activities that uncovers what great work is going on today in the field ...

agINFRA promotes the integration of biodiversity Information in AGRIS

03/03/2015

The multilingual bibliographic database for agricultural science AGRIS was enriched with bioversity information of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) through the support of the agINFRA project.BHL currently contains over 45 million pages of digitized biodiversity content and is a unique resource for agricultural researchers. Only full text documents, filtered by ...

AGRIS e-Consultation is still open

14/01/2015

The AGRIS E-Consultation is still open for participation.  All users are invited to share their opinion on AGRIS  and to contribute to a continuous improvement as the survey results will be used to further develop AGRIS in 2015.Here is the link to the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/WG1EEfDweXCompleting ...

Second Review Meeting of the SemaGrow Project

15/12/2014

The 2nd Review Meeting took place in Luxemburg on Friday, the 12th Dec 2014 between the European Commission and the SemaGrow Consortium. Its aim was to present the status of the development of the SemaGrow project to European Commission reviewers and to get feedback. Representing FAO, Fabrizio Celli presented the current ...

Invitation to participate in the AGRIS E-Consultation

04/12/2014

The AGRIS team kindly invites you to participate in AGRIS E-Consultation whose goal is to get feedback from AGRIS users on different aspects of the AGRIS application. The results of this survey will be used to further develop AGRIS in 2015.Here is the link to the survey: http://goo.gl/...

Plantwise knowledge bank wins Open Data Award for Social Impact

07/11/2014

On 4 November, the CABI-led Plantwise programme was named winner of the 2014 Open Data Award for Social Impact. This is the latest accolade for this innovative open access platform for knowledge to help farmers lose less of what they grow to crop pests and diseases. Plantwise knowledge bank Global Director Shaun ...

MOOC on Data Science in Agriculture

14/10/2014

This is an online free course offered in the context of the agINFRA project. The MOOC introduces the fundamentals of data science, using agriculture as the common thread. Concepts, tools, methods, processes, and data sources will be explored through lectures, readings, quizzes, and case study applications. Main topics of this ...