In the framework of the "OpenMinted" initiative, funded by H2020 (grant id 654021), Arvo Consultores has developed and implemented a new plugin for: "Forest Systems" and"Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research" journals of the Spanish National Institute of Agricultural Research and Technology and Food, managed in the electronic journal platform Open ...

From March 25 to March 29 takes place the 45th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) in Singapore. In the context of the APAN meeting the AgGateway Global Network, GODAN and the APAN Agriculture WG are organizing a joint session on Web API, Open Data and Interoperability.  Access to field and ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and e-Agriculture are carrying out an online forum discussion on "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Resilience". How can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects?Are there any specific constraints in the use of ICTs for resilience?What are the ...

The DENDRO platform is an open-source platform designed to help researchers describe their datasets, fully build on Linked Open Data. Whenever researchers want to publish a dataset, they can export to repositories such as CKAN, DSpace, Invenio, or EUDAT's B2SHARE. “Research data management is rapidly becoming a regular concern ...

The GODAN Summit (15-16 September 2016, New York) is the first global conference organized by GODAN, convening all interested in the opening, the use, and the impact of agriculture and nutrition data. At the GODAN Summit open data researchers and practitioners will have the opportunity to discuss their latest findings at ...

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METADATA AND SEMANTICS RESEARCH (MTSR’16)The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research(MTSR'16) will be held at the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) in Goettingen (Germany) on November 22-25, 2016. Papers can be submitted until the 24th of June 2016 Paper Submission ...

The heading of this blog is the title of a recent paper from AGRIS team published under the F1000Research. The paper reviews the latest development of the AGRIS database and focuses also on the needs of the community. AGRIS is a global public good and its vision is to ...

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 ...

The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative, introduces a set of recommendations applying to agri-food research community for data management, sharing and dissemination. Additionally, these recommendations aim to provide a ...