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First Eastern and Southeastern European Regional Workshop on AGORA and Research4Life

03/10/2019

The First Eastern and Southeastern European Regional Workshop on AGORA and Research4Life is taking place on 3 and 4 October at the State Agrarian University of Moldova in Chișinău. The AGORA Team from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is presenting AGORA and the other ...

Applications Open for November's Run of course on Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development

02/10/2019

Application for the second edition of the online course on Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development are open! Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations together with the Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) are pleased to ...

NASA’s Earth Observing Data and Information System – What challenges for the Near Future?

30/09/2019

Since the 1990s, a common set of data exchange and access principles created by the Canadian, Japanese, European and U.S. International Earth Observing System (IEOS) partners has fostered NASA to develop a free, open and non-discriminatory data and information policy regarding its Earth observation program. NASA’s Earth Observing ...

AGRIS reaches 10,206,816 bibliographic records! (September 2019)

27/09/2019

The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS September 2019 data release As of September 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 10,206,816 records! The AGRIS team wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and users! The next AGRIS data release will ...

Practical Application of a Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix for the NOAA OneStop Project

27/09/2019

Assessing the stewardship maturity of individual datasets is an essential part of ensuring and improving the way datasets are documented, preserved, and disseminated to users. It is a critical step towards meeting U.S. federal regulations, organizational requirements, and user needs. However, it is challenging to do so consistently and ...