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Highlights from first and second IGAD outbreak sessions at RDA P7
15/03/2016
1st IGAD BREAKOUT GROUP AT THE RDA 7 – Results of the IGAD Pre-Meeting RDA P7: adopting RDA outputsThe Interest Group for Agricultural (IGAD) got together at the Research Data Alliance 7th Plenary in Tokyo. Discussion groups from the breakout sessions produced some interesting results50 IGAD members – split into three key discussion ...
CELL5M: a geospatial data and analytics platform of harmonized multi-disciplinary data layers for agricultural research and development
15/03/2016
The HarvestChoice CELL5M Database was developed by International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI to move multidisciplinary data underlying agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa into one harmonized, geospatial database. CELL5M was recently presented by Jawoo Koo (IFPRI) at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting during the RDA Seventh Plenary Meeting, Tokyo (Japan)....New collaboration - AGROVOC and the Georgian TECHINFORM
14/03/2016
TECHINFORM, the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, has joined the AGROVOC community of editors.As of the next release, AGROVOC will also include Georgian. This will happen thanks to the contribution of the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (TECHNIFORMI). AGROVOC team greatly appreciate this ...
Crop Ontology: harmonizing semantics for phenotyping and agronomy data
14/03/2016
The Crop Ontology project is the creation of the Generation Challenge Programme GCP of CGIAR, which understood from its inception the importance of controlled vocabularies and ontologies for the digital annotation of data. The Crop Ontology was presented at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting before the RDA 7th Plenary, by Bioversity ...