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Webinar - Strengthening AGROVOC through engagement with expert communities

04/06/2020

A recording of the webinar,  ‘Strengthening AGROVOC through engagement with expert communities,’ organized by the Ontologies Community of Practice of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is now available.   During this webinar, the AGROVOC Team from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations introduce how ...

More than 350 IGAD Members Participate in RDA/IGAD Week-Long Virtual Meeting

03/06/2020

At the most recent IGAD Online Virtual Meeting (25 to 28 May 2020), more than 350 IGAD members participated in a series of sessions dedicated to IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues. There was a special focus on semantics, crop data interoperability and experiences and lessons learnt from Asia, Europe, Africa and ...

June 2020 AGROVOC Thesaurus now with 37,273 concepts and 752,445 terms, now in up to 39 languages

01/06/2020

The June 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,273 concepts and 752,445 terms, now in up to 39 languages. The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here. ...

Call for the Least Developed Countries EXTENDED: Register for the Research4Life Massive Open Online Course on Global Access to Research in Health, Food and Agriculture, Environment, Innovation and Law

01/06/2020

The United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries (UNTB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently announced a new partnership  to support the delivery of online training activities for the 47 least-developed countries to enhance the access to recent scientific knowledge, and thus give them ...

RDA Releases 5th Final Draft of COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations

01/06/2020

RDA Members Invited to Review and Comment  The Global Research Data Alliance community response to the global COVID-19 pandemic Data drives rapid response and informed decision making during public health emergencies. There is a need for timely and accurate collection, reporting and sharing of data with the research community, public ...