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Research4Life workshop focuses on the information resources related to land.

22/05/2019

During the recent “State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem”, 8-10th May in Nairobi, Kenya Research4Life held on the 10th of May a workshop that presented the Research4Life programmes, and focusing on information resources related to legal resources and land. ...

The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons

21/05/2019

Where are we with Open Data? What is the state of the affairs at the moment? The recently published, “The State of Open Data” not only brings together more than 65 authors from around the world but further retraces the more than ten years of open data history. The State of ...

Good news for ASFA and AGROVOC users

17/05/2019

...as ASFA and AGROVOC work together to share some infrastructure and enrich the controlled vocabularies Did you know that the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) database is cited by the majority of aquatic and marine science librarians as their primary database? ASFA on one end ASFA is the premier ...

Research4Life Interview with Professor Edda Tandi Lwoga – the Research4Life’s user representative

17/05/2019

Professor Edda Tandi Lwonga from the College of Business Education in Dar es salaam, in Tanzania, is the Research4Life’s official user representative. Professor Lwoga, has a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. She is also an Associate Professor and Deputy Rector ...

The release for AGROVOC May 2019 is out!

06/05/2019

FAO AGROVOC team is pleased to announce the release for AGROVOC release for May 2019. The May 2019 release brings AGROVOC to a total of 36,212 concepts up from 36,196 concepts in April 2019. The AGROVOC May 2019 release was published today. Many thanks to those who contributed. The current release improved AGROVOC in a number ...