AIMS

DivSeek: the future of food resides within crop diversity

02/12/2016

DivSeek aims to unlock the potential of crop diversity stored in genebanks around the globe and make it available to all so that it can be utilized to enhance the productivity, sustainability and resilience of crops and agricultural systems._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________“As the world’s population grows, global demand for food is ...

COAR Controlled Vocabularies: Improving consistency of repository metadata

02/12/2016

The 10th “International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research” (MTSR 2016)  also co-located four workshops, one of them dedicated to successful controlled vocabulary, namely the Controlled Vocabulary for Resource Type Genres version 1.1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________Controlled Vocabularies are one of the semantic glues that binds open access repositories and scholarly communication infrastructures together. They ...

Free Webinar: What can we learn from the Internet?

01/12/2016

Turing Award winner,  Bob Kahn was not only one of the inventors of Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), but also one of the driving forces within the internet community that created completely new opportunities, new technologies and new aspirations that we are all familiar with today.Join a unique webinar ...

OpenForis : Free Open-Source Solutions for Environmental Monitoring

01/12/2016

An FAO-led initiative OpenForis is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data producing, collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination in order to implement multi-purpose forest inventories and support environmental monitoring._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Forum on forests has been a priority on the international policy and political agendas ...

Center for Open Data Enterprise: focus on open government data and data users

29/11/2016

Open data can support economic growth and social good around the world. To that end, this global resource needs to be developed and managed in ways that meet user expectations. To reach this goal, the Center for Open Data Enterprise seeks to develop smarter open data strategies based on user ...