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RDA Council has endorsed the Capacity Development for Agriculture Data WG

20/07/2018

RDA COUNCIL HAS ENDORSED THE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR AGRICULTURE DATA WG.The aim of this Working Group (WG) is to develop synergies between existing education and training activities and agricultural science needs by performing a landscape assessment to identify existing gaps and training requirements within the Interest Group on Agricultural ...

The total number of AGRIS records reaches 9,268,679 (July 2018)

17/07/2018

As of July 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,268,679. 27,203 new records include all data received from AGRIS Data Providers in June 2018.  The AGRIS team at the FAO of the UN wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and users! AGRIS : BACKGROUND  FAO - AGRIS (International Information System for the ...

Invitation to the Interest Group in Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Meeting P12 in Gaborone, Botswana

13/07/2018

INTEREST GROUP ON AGRICULTURAL DATA (IGAD) MEETINGGaborone (Botswana). 5-6 November 2018Formed in 2013, since its inception the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) has grown in community strength to over 200 members, becoming one of the RDA’s most prominent Thematic Groups. IGAD is a domain-oriented group working on all issues related ...

APPLY NOW : Six fully-funded PhD positions in Data Science and Data Engineering

05/07/2018

The new Chair for “Data Science and Data Engineering” at Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology is looking to hire six fully-funded PhD candidates in the research areas of: graph mining (two positions open) anomaly detection (two positions open) predictive analytics (two position open) Candidates with a strong background in ...

International Data Week & related RDA and CODATA events (5-10 November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana)

04/07/2018

INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK 2018 ...... is a global conference - with the theme of ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’- taking place in Africa.  It encompasses all issues relating to data in research from cutting edge issues in data science (the digital frontiers of global science), through challenges of data intensive ...