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06/08/2013
"With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data." [1] The Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) can be added to the rapidly increasing number of interlinked datasets that are published as Linked Data, since China's largest thesaurus in the agricultural domain has now been published as ...
06/08/2013
Data sharing offers important benefits for scientific progress, but is not yet very easy among scholars. In order to overcome this barrier, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was set-up in 2012. The aim: accelerating and facilitating research data sharing and exchange across different research groups. Coming up this September is the ...
05/08/2013
Social Media for development - Why is it important? "It's important to communicate with people in the language they speak, on the platform they use." (Jim Rosenberg, Head Online Communication & Social Media, the World Bank) The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and FAO collaborated to hold the ...
05/08/2013
"FAO is committed to broad and unrestricted access to information, and all publications are made freely available in a growing variety of formats and media" (About FAO Publications). This is done through the FAO Document Repository, FAO’s official online repository, but now also a selection of bestselling titles is ...
31/07/2013
At the LODE-BD Webinar today, I mentioned some useful sources for locating LOD datasets, vocabularies, properties, and examples of bibliographic data. Here are the links to some of them.  1. Where to find available LOD datasets: The Data Hub:  http://datahub.io/ (check under certain groups, such as "Bibliographic Data", "Library ...

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