information management

agINFRA open access recommendations for agri-food research community

20/03/2015

The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative, introduces a set of recommendations applying to agri-food research community for data management, sharing and dissemination. Additionally, these recommendations aim to provide a ...

New feature in AGRIS: multilingual search!

21/01/2015

We are pleased to announce a new feature available in the AGRIS Web site (http://agris.fao.org/ ): the multilingual search. The final goal is to allow users to query the AGRIS database in their own native language, retrieving also results in different languages. This is an optional feature (not ...

LIBER launches Leadership Journées Programme for Library Directors (May 2015)

15/12/2014

In May 2015, LIBER, in collaboration with Sciences Po Paris, will launch its first Leadership Journées Programme exclusively for Library Directors. This will take place at Sciences Po in the heart of Paris, Wednesday May 20th - Friday May 22nd 2015.The Programme is designed for 20 Library Directors who are already ...

Expert consultation on future of Agricultural Knowledge Resource Centres

17/11/2014

A really interesting event is taking place between 17-19 of November 2014: the Expert consultation on future of Agricultural Knowledge Resource Centres in ACP (African Caribbean & Pacific) Regions is organized by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), located at Wageningen, The Netherlands.This meeting is organized in the ...

Vocbench 2.2 has been released

04/11/2014

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 ...

Thematic Interview

agINFRA is successfully providing a number of different services for the agricultural community

03/10/2014

Andreas Drakos is a project manager and part of the agINFRA coordination team assisting in the management and implementation of the project tasks. In this brief interview we ask him to get more insight on agINFRA activities, achievements and planned future activities.agINFRA is an e-infrastructure project funded under the ...

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1st Training Workshop on Agricultural Information Strategies and New Tools

01/10/2013

The Nicaraguan Network of Agricultural Information and Documentation (RENIDA), founded in 1980 after the efforts of the Nicaraguan Center for Information Technology (CENIT - FINAPRI) and in collaboration with the Inter-American Agricultural Documentation Centre of IICA, has become one of the largest networks of agricultural information in the hemisphere. The Network ...

Free Webinar on OpenBiblio. Getting small and rural libraries online and into the digital age

11/11/2012

On the 3rd December EIFL-FOSS is organising a webinar looking at OpenBiblio, an open source integrated library management system of particular interest to small libraries with limited technical expertise and resources of less than 50,000 volumes OpenBiblio is based upon MARC21 record format but any compatible format records may be imported (...

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