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PubMed Central (PMC) Reaches 4 Million Articles, Updates Made to Improve Content Navigation

22/08/2016

As of August 2016, PubMed Central is home to four million articles and has rolled new features to ensure that this content is easily navigable. PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of ...

Would you like to contribute to a global map of agri-food data standards?

19/08/2016

As announced a few days ago. GODAN Action is a 3.5 year project funded by DFID and led by international partners with a strong agriculture, nutrition, data and ICT record including Wageningen UR – Alterra, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), ...

Join the Open Data Revolution and win up to $3,000 - GODAN Hackathon

19/08/2016

HackathonDuring the GODAN Summit 2016 happening September 15-16, 2016, GODAN is hosting the Open Data Maker’s Hackathon, bringing together software and agricultural innovators to create the beginnings of practical solutions that allow for better utilizing, collecting, and/or making more accessible open data to improve our food system. In an effort ...

Review of the AGRIS paper : Discovering, Indexing and Interlinking Information Resources

19/08/2016

This is a summary review of the AGRIS paper entitled, Discovering, Indexing and Interlinking Information Resources, which was published in the Open knowledge in agricultural development channel.ObjectiveThis paper discusses an evaluation study on a benchmark sample of AGRIS articles carried in order to determine the relevance between crawled web ...

TAP and CABI release Common Framework on Capacity Development

18/08/2016

Capacity Development is a high priority among the Partners in The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR). The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) announces the publication of the TAP Common Framework on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems, following on its finalization at the TAP Partner Assembly on 20 January 2016 in Kigali, ...