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Register by 20 November and Join the Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 event !

09/11/2017

Europe's leading e-infrastructures, EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE, and RDA Europe, invite all researchers, developers and service providers for two days of brainstorming and discussions at the ...Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 event FULL PROGRAMME (30 November - 1 December 2017)  REGISTER BY 20TH NOVEMBER 2017 !Under the theme “Connecting the building blocks for ...

KUKUA Weather Data and forecasting services for local farmers in Africa

09/11/2017

We can’t influence the weather ... but we can boost access to reliable, accurate weather data and agronomic information ... which is crucial to making informed decisions about when and how to plant and tend crops in order to improve yields. Did you know that ... Africa has over 30 million small farms ...

Recorded Webinar on ‘Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) through TAPipedia

08/11/2017

(Image source: FAO of the UN)If you missed the webinar on ‘Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) through TAPipedia’ , you can watch the recording. You can find the presentation slides here.____________________________________________________________________________________________________The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP*), hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of ...

Join TRAINING Course and SYMPOSIUM on Farmers' ACCESS to DATA in Johannesburg !

08/11/2017

GFAR has convened a SYMPOSIUM ON FARMERS' RIGHTS TO DATA to be held in Johannesburg on 24 November 2017. Register here to participate in the Symposium !The symposium follows a Training Course on Access to Data held in the preceding 4 days. There are still 5 slots available for participating in the training : Register ...

AgroTagger classifier. Leveraging the knowledge encoded in AGROVOC for AGRIS items

08/11/2017

 Did you hear about AgroTagger? It is a  JAVA Command Line application to assign semantic terms to textual content. At a high level of abstraction, AgroTagger can be considered as a keyword extractor that uses the AGROVOC thesaurus, to extract keywords from a set of web URLs. The AgroTagger is ...