The 22nd plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place virtually from 14 to 23 May.All experts and practitioners interested in agricultural data are invited to attend the session organized by the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice titled "Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI".Dates ...

  A regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia” was held by FAO in collaboration with the LandPortal Foundation (the Netherlands) in Moscow, 27-28 June 2019, hosted by the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL). ...

In the framework of the "OpenMinted" initiative, funded by H2020 (grant id 654021), Arvo Consultores has developed and implemented a new plugin for: "Forest Systems" and"Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research" journals of the Spanish National Institute of Agricultural Research and Technology and Food, managed in the electronic journal platform Open ...

From March 25 to March 29 takes place the 45th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) in Singapore. In the context of the APAN meeting the AgGateway Global Network, GODAN and the APAN Agriculture WG are organizing a joint session on Web API, Open Data and Interoperability.  Access to field and ...

 (Image credit: Max Pixel : Creative Commons Zero - CC0)This webinar is organised as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries provided by FAO of the United Nations in collaboration with Research4Life. The webinar is open to the public as well ...

 Low Emission Development Strategies in Agriculture. An Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Perspective is the title of the paper published under a Creative Commons license on Science Direct. This  review summarizes this paper._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“Resource use in many developing countries, from crop production to deforestation is responsible for the ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and e-Agriculture are carrying out an online forum discussion on "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Resilience". How can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects?Are there any specific constraints in the use of ICTs for resilience?What are the ...

The DENDRO platform is an open-source platform designed to help researchers describe their datasets, fully build on Linked Open Data. Whenever researchers want to publish a dataset, they can export to repositories such as CKAN, DSpace, Invenio, or EUDAT's B2SHARE. “Research data management is rapidly becoming a regular concern ...

The GODAN Summit (15-16 September 2016, New York) is the first global conference organized by GODAN, convening all interested in the opening, the use, and the impact of agriculture and nutrition data. At the GODAN Summit open data researchers and practitioners will have the opportunity to discuss their latest findings at ...

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METADATA AND SEMANTICS RESEARCH (MTSR’16)The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research(MTSR'16) will be held at the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) in Goettingen (Germany) on November 22-25, 2016. Papers can be submitted until the 24th of June 2016 Paper Submission ...