AIMS

25 - 27 April 2018 : East Africa Digital Farmers Conference & Exhibition

26/03/2018

On the 25th – 27th of April 2018, KALRO in conjunction with Smart Farmer Magazine will hold the first Digital Farmers Conference and Exhibition in East Africa, at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) grounds in Nairobi County.This three regional conference seeks to help farmers and other value chain actors ...

29 - 30 March 2018: National Workshop on AGORA : Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

26/03/2018

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a National Workshop on Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) from 29 to 30 March 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal._____________________________________________________________________________________________The AGORA programme, set up by FAO together with ...

Call for Papers : The 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18)

24/03/2018

Call for PapersThe 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18) will be held at Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, Cyprus between October 23rd – 26th,  2018 1st call for papers MOTIVATIONMTSR is an annual international inter-disciplinary conference which brings together academics, researchers and practitioners in the specialized fields of ...

Research Data Alliance : Data Management Framework : What Makes It So Special?

23/03/2018

Data is revolutionarily changing the way research is being conducted, and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) - through its multi-disciplinary, community-driven, and truly bottom-up approach - has a huge impact on this.(Image credit: RDA in a nutshell, SlideShare, 2018)Since 2013, RDA keeps building - in a very concrete way - ...

Discover AGROVOC and other Data Standards on the VEST / AgroPortal platform

19/03/2018

Common vocabularies, data standards, application profiles and ontologies are key in ensuring we can make better meaning and management of the vast amounts of data becoming available every day.  To simplify the task of retrieval  and using of value vocabularies on support of data representation, there is a number of ...