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"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 ...

New Webinar@AIMS:Disseminating African Food and Nutritional Information through Open Access Publishing

10/07/2015

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND): Disseminating African Food and Nutritional Information through Open Access Publishing". This webinar will represent the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) and the webinar addresses publishers, librarians, information management ...

Open Vacancies on Open Education at the Open University of the Netherlands

09/07/2015

As you may know I was appointed as Chair for Open Education and Innovation at the Open University of the Netherlands. Since April 2015 I'm very pleased to work as Associated Professor at the OUNL and to strengthen the leading position of the Welten Research Institute.Three vacancies for my research ...