AIMS

A Survey and Analysis of the Data Requirements for Stakeholders in African Agriculture

14/10/2013

As part of DFID's contribution to the G8 initiative on Open Data for Agriculture, a broad survey of key stakeholders in sustainable African agriculture was conducted to assess current and emerging trends related to data collection, processing, and dissemination. A total of 281 stakeholders were contacted by email among 11 organizational categories. ...

AGROVOC and AGRIS services available again

14/10/2013

We are pleased to announce that our hosting partners solved all technical issues and that our services are available again: OpenAGRIS: http://agris.fao.org/openagris/ AGRIS LOD: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/agris AGRIS SERIALS: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/jad AGRIS CENTERS: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/centers AGROVOC LOD: http://202.45.139.84:10035/...

SCImago Journal and Country Rank

10/10/2013

The SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) is a portal that includes the journals and country indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database.These indicators are used to access and analyse scientific domains.  Agriculture and Biological Sciences country rankings A search on the SJR portal on agricultural ...

RDA - Metadata Standards Directory WG: Share your metadata standards!

09/10/2013

The Metadata Standards Directory (MASDIR) Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is working on developing a collaborative and open directory of metadata standards that are used in scientific data contexts. The goal is to contribute to addressing infrastructure challenges. MASDIR has now started its work by asking the ...

AGROVOC LOD, AGRIS LOD and OpenAGRIS temporarily unavailable

09/10/2013

Unfortunately the following services have not been available since last week and will not be for some more days: AGROVOC LOD AGRIS LOD OpenAGRIS AGROVOC Webservices We are facing some technical problems with our hosting partners and are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for ...