The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “How to practically support Open Access: Guidelines for Data Providers of the OpenAIRE scholarly communication infrastructure". It will present an overview about the evolution of OpenAIRE guidelines, challenges and methodologies.  It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and ...

On 4 November, the CABI-led Plantwise programme was named winner of the 2014 Open Data Award for Social Impact. This is the latest accolade for this innovative open access platform for knowledge to help farmers lose less of what they grow to crop pests and diseases. Plantwise knowledge bank Global Director Shaun ...

Dear Vocbenchers,After almost seven months, a new version of VocBench (2.2) has been released.We had so many features being developed in parallel, that one month ago we decided to consolidate a few of them and freeze the others for a while, so to have a first release 2.2 and then ...

The 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014) will be held in Stockholm, Sweden 24-27 August 2014. ICT4S is a series of research conferences bringing together leading researchers, developers and government and industry representatives interested in using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a tool to reach sustainability ...

The Global GODAN/CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development will take place at FAO of the United Nations headquarters in Rome, Italy, between 22nd and 24th April. The final programme for the event and supplementary information including a list of participants is available here. Acknowledging that there are ...

In the Linked Open Data paradigm, institutional repositories have the opportunity to enhance shareability, extensibility, and re-usability of their data by ensuring:content stable, discoverable, and readable data by both machines and humansuse of appropriate well established metadata standards and emerging Linked Open Data enabled vocabulariesuse of controlled vocabularies, authority ...

The 4th agINFRA Newsletter (June) is available now! The agINFRA Newsletter is issued on a bi-monthly basis. For an overview of the newsletters issued until today, please visit aginfra.eu/en/news-and-achievements/press-room/newsletters and subscribe. AgINFRA at G8 The June issue opens up with an account of the G8 ...

The recorded webcast of the 8 presentations held at the "D8 - Open Data for Agriculture" event is now available on the website of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and on Youtube. The event took place on the 1st of May, the day after the "G-8 International Conference on ...

The recorded webcasts of day 1&2 of the "G8 Conference on Open Data for Agriculture" are now available on the World Bank's Information and Communication Technologies event page. On the website of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) the Storify boards for Day 1 and Day 2 are available. They include multimedia, ...