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Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development – calling all contributors

29/01/2016

Knowledge sharing and progress go hand in hand. By building a ‘knowledge community’ experts in the field of agriculture are better able to focus on the bigger picture and challenges at large.  With that in mind, what can you share on OKAD? If you follow us on AIMS then you’...

AGRIS: Facilitating access to scientific and technical information

28/01/2016

AGRIS will be updating users at least once a month in 2016. This aim of these updates or blogs will be to share the recent news, content additions and connect AGRIS with its users and content providers. To break the ice, this inagural blog will detail basic information of what AGRIS ...

The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review : a new OA article

28/01/2016

The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative is a statement that researchers can sign. That indicates that after a future date—1 January 2017—reviewers will begin to apply certain minimal open research standards to the manuscripts they review. The Royal Society Science Policy Centre states that “good [scientific] communication is assessable communication, which ...

Save the date: SEMIC 2016 - Semantic Interoperability Conference on data standards for interconnected Public Administrations

27/01/2016

Save the date:The annual conference on Semantic Interoperability for eGovernment (SEMIC 2016) organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission, will be held in Rome on Thursday, 12 May 2016.SEMIC offers a unique opportunity to explore how public administrations can use data standards to make information exchange efficient and effective, ...

New Webinar@AIMS: Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR

27/01/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to announce the webinar “Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR”. It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and other interested people.AbstractTo help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data.  Within ...