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Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference 2019

11/10/2019

Africa has witnessed a remarkable growth in recent years, emerging as the world’s second fastest growing economy and attracting the interest of governments and businesses from around the world. With digital transformation changing governance, businesses and daily life at an ever accelerating pace, efficient technology adoption will be the ...

AGROVOC features in a comparative study on online environmental knowledge resources

10/10/2019

Recently AGROVOC appeared in an article of the International Journal of Lexicography (IJL). The article describes and compares a set of 18 online bilingual or multilingual specialized resources on the environment to evaluate their usefulness for translation. This analysis focused on how each resource deals with access to phraseological information and ...

Webinar on Transforming Agriculture Through Digital Financial Innovations: Recording available!

09/10/2019

For those of you who were not able to follow the webinar on Transforming Agriculture Through Digital Financial Innovations, held on 8 October, you will be pleased to follow the recording of the event available below. Drawing from first-hand experience, the diverse speaker panel, including AIMS team, focused on how to ...

MIT Press was awarded a grant to develop a sustainable framework for open-access monographs

09/10/2019

Photo by Pexels licensed under CC0 License The Arcadia Fund, a Fund that supports charities and scholarly institutions to promote open access (OA) has recently awarded MIT Press, a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, a grant of $850,000 to develop and pilot a sustainable framework ...

A Method for Extending Ontologies with Application to the Materials Science Domain

08/10/2019

Photo by Pexels licensed under CC0 License In the materials science domain the data-driven science paradigm has become the focus since the beginning of the 2000s. A large number of research groups and communities are building and developing data-driven workflows. However, much of the data and knowledge is stored in ...