AIMS

Have you signed up for openness in research?

09/05/2016

Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative calls for transparency in research, asking scientists to apply certain minimal standards by 2017We blogged recently about F1000Research – what it is and why transparent peer-review on a public platform is important.Back in January a group of researchers led by Cardiff University launched an initiative ...

D4Science Hybrid Data Infrastructure facilitating data sharing and research collaborations

09/05/2016

D4Science is an organization offering an Hybrid Data Infrastructure since 2009 for seamless access and analysis to a wide spectrum of data including biological andecological data, geospatial data, statistical data and semi-structured data from multiple authoritative data providers and information systems.“Modern science calls for innovative practices to facilitate research ...

BlueBRIDGE: Building Research environments for fostering Innovation Decision making Governance and Education to support Blue Growth

08/05/2016

A European consortium BlueBRIDGE - launched in 2015 - delivers tailor made data management services to different communities and stakeholders (international organizations, research centers, enterprises, etc.) operated through collaborative web-based/virtual research environments. Oceans are the world’s seventh largest economy and are fundamental to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and labour ...

Can open-source farming spark a sustainable and climate-smart agricultural revolution?

06/05/2016

Caleb Harper from MIT Media Lab (OpenAG) argues that in the future we won’t ship food to the world, we’ll send data. Feeding future generations depends on advances in technology like sensors, big data and networks, and in recognizing that agriculture is a science like any otherThe UN ...

The spotlight on Agricola

05/05/2016

This annual summary publication features highlights from Namibian agricultural research, but is hard to locate One of the discussions that was floated at the recent Open Science and Open Data forum in Namibia was to improve visibility and discoverability by indexing Agricola through AGRIS (International Information System for Agricultural Science ...