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Ensuring the full participation of family farmers in agricultural innovation systems: The role of ICTs

24/08/2012

FAO hosted an e-mail conference from 4 June to 1 July 2012 on "Ensuring the full participation of family farmers in agricultural innovation systems: Key issues and case studies". Nearly 600 people subscribed and 114 people from nearly 50 different countries wrote messages in which they discussed the topic and shared case studies and lessons learned. ...

New resources in VEST Vocabularies Registry

23/08/2012

The VEST Vocabularies Registry received the following new resources: Environmental Dictionary The Environmental Dictionary (EnDic) is maintained by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). The dictionary has about 90,000 search words in different languages and provides definitions for 2,000 terms in English, Estonian and Finnish Agriculture and Forestry Ontology The Agriculture and Forestry ...

BioMed Central celebrates its tenth Foundation Member

23/08/2012

BioMed Central is an open access publisher specializing in science, technology and medicine (STM) publishing. BioMed Central recently announced the signing up of  the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco as the 10th member to the Foundation Membership. BioMed Central Foundation Membership Foundation Membership is an initiative from BioMed ...

VIVO 2012 conference, semantic track: a modelling exercise for the rationale behind AgriVIVO.

23/08/2012

During a workshop on "Unifying Researcher Profile and Research Resource Information" at the VIVO 2012 conference in Miami, we did a group exercise to model the rationale behind AgriVIVO using an improvised requirements ontology. The exercise was conducted together with Stella Mitchell from Cornell University and Melissa Haendel from the Oregon ...

Ocean Biogeographic information System: data system architecture discussed

22/08/2012

The future of the data system architecture of the Ocean Biogeographic information System (OBIS) was planned on June, 20-21, 2012 by 18 members of the OBIS development consortium. The outcomes of this technical group meeting will be further discussed at the next IODE steering group for OBIS meeting in November 2012 and a ...