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Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) Pre-Meeting

21/07/2015

The Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) prepares a pre-meeting on the 21st and 22nd of September 2015 in Paris to discuss current challenges of research data management and reflect about possible linkages with other interest and working groups in RDA. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global initiative reaching out ...

Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies e-forum – 7-18 September 2015

21/07/2015

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations are organising an e-forum on “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies” which will take place from 7-18 ...

"Improving Semantics in Agriculture" Workshop - Material Online!

17/07/2015

On the 2nd and 3rd of July 2015 the "Improving Semantics in Agriculture" Workshop took place in the FAO Head Quarter in Rome, Italy. The workshop was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 38 international experts participated in the workshop.The goal of this workshop was to draw a roadmap for ...

Curso en Línea “Introducción a la Gestión de Datos de Investigación”

16/07/2015

Curso en Línea “Introducción a la Gestión de Datos de Investigación”La llamada “Revolución de los datos” está impregnando todos los niveles sociales. La sociedad actual produce grandes cantidades de datos en formato digital. La vida contemporánea está plagada de dispositivos que miden y ...

Connecting Stakeholders in the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture in Kenya

14/07/2015

The Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture, that took place on the 15th of June 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together 44 stakeholders in agriculture for an exchange of strategies on improving the visibility and accessibility of agricultural data and science in Kenya.The participants came from various Kenyan ...