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2016’s “International Year of Pulses” has put this protein-packed food group under the spotlight

01/03/2016

But did you know that on AGRIS you can access thousands of texts about lentils, chickpeas, and every pulse in between? 2016 is gearing up to be a busy year– the 68th UN General Assembly declared it the International Year of Pulses (IYP), and one of our contributions to this important ...

Research Data Alliance 7th Plenary meeting - what is it and why is it important for IGAD?

29/02/2016

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global data-sharing initiative that aims to open up access to data. It’s multi disciplinary, meaning that its 42 separate Interest Groups (IGAD is one) can cover anything from oceanography to medicine and countless disciplines in between.  The common aim is to create better ...

IGAD pre-conference meeting kicks off 28 Feb in Tokyo, followed by two IGAD feedback sessions during the RDA Plenary 7

26/02/2016

Big topics on the pre-meet agenda include rice research data, data access and availability, and agricultural data interoperability   IGAD – the Interest Group on Agricultural Data which operates as part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), is hosting two days of pre-conference meetings 28 – 29th Feb ahead of the RDA 7th Plenary (...

COAR controlled vocabularies case study presented at the ELPUB 2016

25/02/2016

The International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) reached its 20th anniversary ! Among a number of contributions, a paper entitled ‘COAR Controlled Vocabularies and PHAIDRA International’ was presented during the conference.ELPUB 2016 continues the tradition, and brings together scholars, publishers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in ...

SWALIM has been nominated for the WSIS Prize in 2016 - Vote for SWALIM

24/02/2016

As circulated by SWALIM Information Management Unit. They request your vote for SWALIM project which has been nominated for the WSIS Prize in 2016.The Somalia Water and Land Information Management Project (SWALIM) has been nominated for the WSIS Prize of 2016 . This is an award organized by the International Telecommunications Union ...