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Highlights from Country-Based Research4Life (HINARI & AGORA) Workshop at Datacom

25/01/2017

The ‘hybrid’ HINARI & AGORA workshop was conducted at Datacom Training Centre in Vientiane,  13-16 December 2016. The objectives were to have the participants learn the critical skills of HINARI and AGORA and related Internet resources that would be applied to their scientific information needs. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________Research4Life is the collective name for ...

The way forward : Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data

24/01/2017

The first UN World Data Forum  (15-18 January, 2017) served as a launching pad where diverse data producers and users got behind the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data, which will be formally approved by the UN Statistical Commission at its 48th session in March 2017._____________________________________________________________________________________________________2017 is the second ...

Calls for Taxonomic Projects

23/01/2017

GRANT TYPE 1 - Training in taxonomy and collection management & access to collections in Belgium Who can apply?If you are able to answer “yes” to the questions below, you are eligible to receive financial support from the Belgian Development Cooperation through the Belgian GTI program.Does your project address clear ...

Publish and link your vocabularies in LOV. Reuse Linked Open Vocabularies

23/01/2017

The Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) initiative started in 2011 as part of the DataLift research project and is hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation. LOV promotes and facilitates the reuse of well documented vocabularies in the Linked Open Data (LOD) ecosystem. If you think your vocabulary can be reused by others, ...

The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)

20/01/2017

QAAFI delivers high impact science for sustainable agriculture and food. Queensland’s agricultural Research and Development capability ranks among the best in the world, with The University of Queensland (UQ) a leader in agricultural research in Australia and globally._____________________________________________________________________________________________________The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) is a ...