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Open Standards, Data, Source, and Innovation as Principles for Digital Development

06/09/2017

"Principles for Digital Development" are “living” guidelines to help development practitioners to integrate best practices into technology enabled programs.While the "Principle 5" invites users to "Be Data Driven", the "Principle 6" focuses on "Use of Open Data, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation" as a framework to consider an “Open” ...

The current state of affairs at the UN, EU and IFLA level for Open Science and Open Access

05/09/2017

(Image source: Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing; The Guardian) With regard to some current discussions on Open Access publishing, this essay presents some useful links to the current state of affairs at UN, EU and IFLA level for Open Science and Open Access.  Open Science and thus Open ...

AgroTagger : JAVA software to index your documents with AGROVOC thesaurus

04/09/2017

If you want to index your documents with AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus, you can download and install the AgroTagger JAVA Command Line application following the instructions to generate AGROVOC keywords or URIs. The AgroTagger is also used to enrich data in different digital information environments (AGRIS is among them)._________________________________________________________________________________________________The AgroTagger ...

“Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017” : a comprehensive assessment of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs

01/09/2017

Source: [PDF] “Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017” Report, 10 July, 2017 (160 p.)The Spotlight Report on Sustainable Development 2017 : “Reclaiming policies for the public” - - published on the opening day of the High Level Panel on Sustainable Development in New York, USA  - - provides a extensive assessment of the 2030 Agenda and the ...

Good Practices in Extension Research and Evaluation

01/09/2017

MANUAL on GOOD PRACTICES in EXTENSION RESEARCH and EVALUATION, Agricultural Extension in South Asia Network (AESA), 2017, 278 pages.This MANUAL was developed as a hands-on reference tool to help young researchers, research students, and field extension workers in choosing the right research methods for conducting quality research and evaluation in extension....