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Agricultural information & documentation centres in sub-Saharan Africa : A survey

02/12/2013

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD Africa Chapter), is conducting a survey of agricultural information centres, libraries and documentation centre in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...

Vacancy announcement: Technical person with expertise in Drupal and Open Data for the Landportal.info

29/11/2013

Land Portal team is seeking a multi-skilled technical lead to manage the transition of the website from it’s first version as a Drupal 6, to it’s future as an Open Data and Linked Data driven platform, based on Drupal 7, CKAN (data catalogue) and Virtuoso (Linked Data triple store). She/...

RESTful API available to access and use the CHAIN-REDS Semantic Search Engine

29/11/2013

The CHAIN-REDS project has just released an RESTful API to access its Semantic Search Engine. The API allows to get and reuse the millions of open access resources contained  in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base and stored in a Virtuoso RDF-compliant database. From now on, everybody interested in getting and/or ...

A button for Open Access: an innovative new tool to help enable access to denied research

29/11/2013

On November 18th in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with this year’s Berlin 11 Open Access meeting, the Max Planck Society and Right to Research Coalition hosted the first-ever satellite conference to the Berlin conference series specifically for students and early stage researchers. The Berlin11 falls in occasion  of the ten  ...

Digital agriculture information management in ECOWAS countries

29/11/2013

I recently organized a seminar on Agricultural Information Management and Knowledge Exchange in ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) countries in Akosombo, a small town in the east of Ghana in the Eastern Region and the site of the Akosombo Dam. I invited senior officers responsible for information management ...