AIMS

GFAR: Enabling Open Access to Agricultural Data and Information

15/07/2013

Global Forum on Agricultural Research's (GFAR) commitment to open access to agricultural research data and information has been captured in a recent news item.GFAR has been contributing to advocacy and promotion of openness to agricultural research outputs and has also been enabling open access to agricultural research data and ...

Openness and Visibility

11/07/2013

A recent article entitled 'Openness and Visibility' authored by Stephen Rudgard has been published in the ICT Update bulletin. The article retraces the concepts of open access and further defines 'openness' to information and knowledge in the agricultural domain. Regarding visibility, the paper says 'the use of international standards for ...

VocBench sandbox currently unavailable

10/07/2013

Please be informed that the VocBench sandbox is temporarily not functioning. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The AGROVOC/VocBench Team  

"Open Research Data on the Horizon … and beyond" RDA Europe Workshop prior to the RDA Plenary in Washington

09/07/2013

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe is organising a preparatory workshop to the 2nd RDA Plenary meeting in Washington, USA. The preparatory meeting has the theme 'Open Research Data on the Horizon...and beyond' will be held on the 10th of September,in Munich.The goal of this workshop is ...

RDA "Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group" calls for participation

09/07/2013

Within  the  Research Data Alliance (RDA) an Interest Group (IG)on Agricultural Data Interoperability has been set up.  The charter says "The Agricultural Data Interest Group is a domain oriented interest group to work on all issues related to data important for the development of global agriculture. The interest group ...