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Open Data for Africa Launched by AfDB

27/03/2013

The African Development Bank Group has recently launched the 'Open Data for Africa' as part of the bank's goal to improve data management and dissemination in Africa. The Open Data for Africa is a user friendly tool for extracting data, creating and sharing own customized reports, and visualising data across ...

Open Access Interviews@AIMS: a new service on AIMS

27/03/2013

AIMS announces the introduction of 'Open Access Interviews@AIMS ' as a new quartely service. The objective is to publish use cases on various open access issues affecting access to agricultural research outputs and share experiences on the uptake of openness by institutions in the agricultural domain. This service will ...

BHL-Europe web portal opens up the world's knowledge on biological diversity

26/03/2013

The goal of the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) project is to make published biodiversity literature accessible to anyone who’s interested. The project will provide a multilingual access point (12 languages) for biodiversity content through the BHL-Europe web portal with specific biological functionalities for search and retrieval and through ...

Agricultural Data Interest Group founded within Research Data Alliance

22/03/2013

At the RDA launch meeting, March 18-20,  an "Agricultural Data Interestgroup"  was founded. The initial members were from India, France, Greece and FAO of the United Nations. Figure 1. Slide that shows the RDA mechanims The "Agricultural Data Interestgroup" will discuss and pursue all topics related to management and interoperability of ...

Participate in the Survey about the usage of AGROVOC!

22/03/2013

Dear Colleague, The AGROVOC team cordially invites you to participate in the Survey About the Usage of AGROVOC. The purpose of this survey is to get your feedback on the access and usage of AGROVOC, and your responses will be useful for AGROVOC further improvements. Initially, AGROVOC was used primarily ...