The Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS), version Beta 3.1, was released in May 2016. One of the known weaknesses of GACS in its current form is the concept hierarchy (BT/NT relationships). The hierarchy was formed by automatically merging parts of the concept hierarchies of the three source thesauri (AGROVOC, CAB Thesaurus ...

FAO and World Bank met to share experiences in using drones for improving governance and support to developmental projects. The seminar was recently held in Rome at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO of the United Nations) on the 28th of October, 2016.The purpose of this seminar was to share ...

The Agricultural Research Institute of Cyprus has developed a simple web application for farm enterprises with a single product. The application aims to help farmers calculating production cost, gross profit and margin, and selling price in two different cases: (a) farmers are considered to be price-takers and (b) farmers can ...

The OpenCitations Project (formally launched by JISC in 2010) and its main product OpenCitations Corpus open repository help to publish bibliographic citation information in RDF and to make citation links as easy to traverse as Web links under a Creative Commons public domain dedication.__________________________________________________________________________________________________In the age of Open Access (OA), ...

  To jump on the Open Access week 2016 celebrations, Figshare released (October 25, 2016) a landmark report titled The State of Open Data presenting a selection of analyses and articles about Open Data.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________As part of International OA Week  Figshare released a report  The State of Open Data to assess the global landscape ...