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RUFORUM's initiatives foster high-quality research and training in the agricultural sciences in Africa

31/10/2017

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture RUFORUM’s mandate is to oversee graduate training and networks of specialization in the countries and universities where it works. The RUFORUM strongly believes in:* fostering innovative and responsive research* high performing and proactive graduates* a dynamic platform for university networking* ...

Recorded GODAN Action Webinar : Facilitating the use of Standards and steps to achieving impact with Open Data

30/10/2017

GODAN* recently delivered its GODAN Action** Webinar on Capacity Development entitled : Facilitating the use of Standards  and  steps to achieving impact with Open Data.In this webinar, GODAN Action project leads Valeria Pesce (GFAR)  and Rob Lokers (Wageningen University and Research) presented findings from their work on standards and impact ...

AGRIS October 2017 data release with 50,000 new records !

30/10/2017

AGRIS team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes this opportunity to inform all interested parties about AGRIS October 2017 data release with almost 50,000 new records !These new records are provided by AGRIS data providers from Russia, United States, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Poland, Latvia, Iran, Cuba, ...

7 November : Join RDA Webinar : Automatically generating citation text from queries

30/10/2017

The RDA Working Group on Data Citation (RDA WGDC) organizes the next Webinar on implementations of its Recommendation 10 (R10) : "Automated Citation Texts: Generation of the citation text snippet from queries, for lowering the barrier for citing the data". Data / Time: Tue., 7. November 2017, 17:00 CETREGISTRATIONPresenter: Gianmaria Silvello, University of PadovaR10 - Automated ...

Data Sharing : there is no One-Size Fits-All solution ...

30/10/2017

Photo by PEXELS licensed under CC0 LicenseAlthough many researchers are already sharing their raw data and data sets, there are still researchers who question:* Why They Should Share Their Data?* What benefits are in it for them ? * How will they be incentivized, when others use the outputs of their hard ...