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7 September : WEBINAR: SHACL – A New W3C Standard for Data Validation and Modeling

28/08/2017

Join TopQuadrant for a free webinar on September 7, 2017 at 8:30 AM EDT : SHACL (SHAPES Constraint Language)* is a powerful, recently released W3C standard for data validation and modeling, ontology design, inferencing and data transformation. SHACL is based on RDF and SPARQL. The design of SHACL is heavily inspired by SPIN (...

AGRIS July 2017 data release with 190,193 new records !

28/08/2017

AGRIS team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes this opportunity to inform all interested parties about AGRIS July 2017 data release with 190,193 new records !_________________________________________________________________________________________________AGRIS team continues to work on consolidating the AGRIS (INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) platform (with over 8,977,635 ...

GODAN Action Trainers’ Network : Call for Membership

21/08/2017

In the framework of the GODAN Action project, aiming to enable data users, producers and intermediaries to engage effectively with open data and maximise its potential for impact in the agriculture and nutrition sectors, the project team has launched a GODAN Action Trainers Network. If you would like to participate ...

CAB Thesaurus 2017 edition published online

11/08/2017

The widely acclaimed CAB Thesaurus has received a major update for the 2017 edition, making it easier to access the world’s largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences. The search tool now provides a controlled vocabulary resource approaching 2.7 million descriptive terms.CAB Thesaurus content has increased significantly since ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) : what is it all about?

28/07/2017

In April 2016 the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was presented by the European Commission (EC) in January 2012. This regulation was adopted by the EC to protect individuals from unintentional and intentional misuse of personally identifiable information (PII).  On May 25th, in the year 2018, the GDPR ...