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Quick Survey: Depositing Research Data using SWORD

05/12/2011

The SWORD v2 project has been asked by the JISC to look into the applicability of the SWORD protocol for depositing Research Data.  The SWORD protocol has always been agnostic about the type of resource it is depositing, however its initial development stemmed from a requirement for the deposit of ...

IAALD: global community of practice for information specialists serving agriculture

05/12/2011

    The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD), is a leading global community of practice for information specialists serving agriculture.   IAALD’s mission IAALD was formed in 1955 in Ghent, Belgium and its mission is to enable its members to create, capture, access and disseminate information to achieve a more  productive ...

USAIN 2012 conference scholarship: call for applications by agricultural information students

04/12/2011

One $1,000.00 scholarship to be applied to the cost of attending the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) 2012 conference is available to a student interested in pursuing a career in the field of agricultural information. The conference will be held April 29 - May 2, 2012 at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   To ...

New "Agriculture News" portal launched by FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa

02/12/2011

The new Agriculture NewsPortal of the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE) is now operational and available online in both English and Arabic for strengthening agriculture information dissemination and knowledge sharing in Near East and North Africa region. How do you rate the newly established ...

Contribute to the World Bank's "ICT in Agriculture" sourcebook

02/12/2011

The World Bank and the e-Agriculture community are collaborating together in a series of online forums to further develop resources for the recently launched “ICT in Agriculture” Sourcebook. These discussion forums, available to all e-Agriculture community members, will be vehicles to inform the World Bank of other projects/programmes that ...