‘Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach’ is the title of the paper that was awarded the Best Paper Prize, submitted and presented at this year’s 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research conference (MTSR 2016) held on the 22rd to the 25th November 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________________This paper - ...
In September 2016, the Land Portal and the Cadasta Foundation held a debate on Open Data and Land Governance. The highly substantive discussion included the perspectives from 26 participants from key players in government land agencies, international institutions and NGOs. __________________________________________________________________________________________________Across most contexts, government data sources on land are largely inaccessible, from ...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) in conjunction with several partners has organized a series of training workshops in 2016 across Asia and Africa focused on access to research in agriculture and fisheries. Earlier, workshops were held in Namibia, Myanmar, Tanzania and Ghana. A ...
(Image credit: FAO brochure e-Agriculture)This blog post presents e-Agriculture - a global Community of Practice, where people from all over the world exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainable agriculture and rural development.“E-agriculture, or ICTs in agriculture, is ...
There is a growing demand for quality criteria for research datasets stored, managed and shared in reliable and trustworthy way. The FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories Webinar - held on 12-13 December, 2016 - shed light on FAIR principles, Trustworthy Digital Repositories and a possible way of operationalizing the FAIR ...