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Updated CAB Thesaurus approaches 2.5 million terms

25/08/2016

CABI has just announced that CAB Thesaurus has reached 2.5 million terms. Find below the verbatim announcement as published by CABIThe 2016 edition of CAB Thesaurus – the largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences – was published today. It provides a controlled vocabulary resource of nearly 2.5 million descriptive terms.CAB Thesaurus ...

Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020

24/08/2016

The European Commission has released new guidelines on research data generated from Horizon2020 projects participating in the Open Research Data Pilot.BackgroundThe guidelines are intended to help the Horizon 2020 beneficiaries make their research data findable,accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), to ensure it is soundly managed.Good research data management ...

PubMed Central (PMC) Reaches 4 Million Articles, Updates Made to Improve Content Navigation

22/08/2016

As of August 2016, PubMed Central is home to four million articles and has rolled new features to ensure that this content is easily navigable. PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of ...

Would you like to contribute to a global map of agri-food data standards?

19/08/2016

As announced a few days ago. GODAN Action is a 3.5 year project funded by DFID and led by international partners with a strong agriculture, nutrition, data and ICT record including Wageningen UR – Alterra, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), ...

Join the Open Data Revolution and win up to $3,000 - GODAN Hackathon

19/08/2016

HackathonDuring the GODAN Summit 2016 happening September 15-16, 2016, GODAN is hosting the Open Data Maker’s Hackathon, bringing together software and agricultural innovators to create the beginnings of practical solutions that allow for better utilizing, collecting, and/or making more accessible open data to improve our food system. In an effort ...