GFAR has convened a SYMPOSIUM ON FARMERS' RIGHTS TO DATA to be held in Johannesburg on 24 November 2017. Register here to participate in the Symposium !The symposium follows a Training Course on Access to Data held in the preceding 4 days. There are still 5 slots available for participating in the training : Register ...

 Did you hear about AgroTagger? It is a  JAVA Command Line application to assign semantic terms to textual content. At a high level of abstraction, AgroTagger can be considered as a keyword extractor that uses the AGROVOC thesaurus, to extract keywords from a set of web URLs. The AgroTagger is ...

 "Geospatial binding for transdisciplinary research in crop science: the GRASPgfs initiative", in Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:20 : https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0034-3 © The Author(s). 2017 This paper retraces the GRASP-GFS* (Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests with integrated workflow modelling to support Global Food Security) endeavor ...

(Source: Iconographic by SPARC Europe : Setting the dafault to Open) Copyright law aims to achieve a balance between the interests of creators (so they receive a reward for their works) and the public interest in terms of ensuring the public has access to such works. Legal flexibilities in Copyright - ...

While international Open Research & Education community gears up for OpenCon 2017 to take place in Berlin from the 11 to 13 November, 2017, OpenCon orginizers are inviting all interested parties to contribute to a “DO-A-THON” (“a day of making, strategizing, and collaborating on projects to advance Open Research and Open Education”).Even if the ...