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AGROVOC Thesaurus : some Use Cases

03/10/2017

This entry will update you on some issues related to AGROVOC Thesaurus usability. The latest release of AGROVOC thesaurus can be accesses here.    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus. From Creation ... The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus – maintained by FAO of the UN - is an online Linked Data (LD) resource used in different contexts ...

4 October : Free Webinar : Connecting Data and literature: the Scholix initiative

02/10/2017

(Image source: The Scholix Framework for Interoperability in Data-Literature Information Exchange, D-Lib Magazine, 2017)Description of the Webinar:Date/Time: Wednesday, 4th October 2017, 13:00 CESTFor details on how to join register nowTarget audience:journal publishers and editorsstaff from data centers, institutional repositories, and other data servicesresearch leaders and policy makers with an ...

IGAD Data Experts shared their Knowledge & Expertise at the RDA-IGAD Pre-Meeting in Montreal. Get inspired!

29/09/2017

The two-day Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) pre-meeting took place in Montreal, on 17-18 September 2017, - just a couple of days before the 10th Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary meeting (19 - 21 September 2017). The 10th anniversary of the RDA community major event, with the overarching theme : "Better Data, Better Decisions” (...

AGRIS content coverage: facilitating access to global agricultural literature

28/09/2017

In this blog, you will learn aboutThe cost of knowledge access and knowledge production in the worldHow AGRIS facilitates access to agricultural knowledge worldwideAppreciate AGRIS content by geographic origin of recordBrowse AGRIS records by specific countriesAccess to scientific research information is important for policy makers, governments and the scientific communities. ...

NISO TR-06-2017: Issues in Vocabulary Management. AGROVOC thesaurus in "Vocabulary Preservation" Section

28/09/2017

September 25, 2017 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The report ...