The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS October 2018 data release with 82,710 new records! As of October 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,549,442.   The AGRIS team at the FAO of the UN wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and ...

On 16th October 2018, the Global Open Data for Agriculture (GODAN*) and the Open Data Charter launched the Open Up Guide for Agriculture. This guide aims to help governments to prioritize and publish relevant datasets for agricultural development.The Open Up Guide for Agriculture provides guidance on the key elements of ...

In October 2018, the 1.0 version of LODAtlas was released as an open source project under GNU General Public License v3.0. The LODAtlas' source code is hosted on GitLab. LODAtlas was developed by project-team ILDA at Inria, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud; with contributions from project-team CEDAR (RDFQuotients). "In an increasing number of ...

"Digital disruption is an effect that changes the fundamental expectations and behaviors in a culture, market, industry or process that is caused by, or expressed through, digital capabilities, channels or assets" (Gartner)Digital disruption is happening across industries (agriculture is no longer an exception!) bringing significant values to individuals and ...

You might be interested in taking a look at this new entry in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organisation: Data: with big data and database semantics, by Birger Hjørland. This paper seeks to define data and to relate this concept to other core concepts in → library and information science (LIS), ...