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Can open-source farming spark a sustainable and climate-smart agricultural revolution?

06/05/2016

Caleb Harper from MIT Media Lab (OpenAG) argues that in the future we won’t ship food to the world, we’ll send data. Feeding future generations depends on advances in technology like sensors, big data and networks, and in recognizing that agriculture is a science like any otherThe UN ...

The spotlight on Agricola

05/05/2016

This annual summary publication features highlights from Namibian agricultural research, but is hard to locate One of the discussions that was floated at the recent Open Science and Open Data forum in Namibia was to improve visibility and discoverability by indexing Agricola through AGRIS (International Information System for Agricultural Science ...

LEARN : LEaders Activating Research Networks. Towards a common model on Research Data Management Policy and Data Management Plans

04/05/2016

LEARN  Project is an ongoing project (2015-06-01 to 2017-05-31) funded under Horizon 2020.  LEARN aims to implement the LERU Research Data Roadmap and Toolkit to raise awareness of Research Data Management and Policy issues to institutions. LEARN encourages you to take part in Research Data Management Readiness survey!“The ...

Take part in a OpenMinTeD survey investigating needs in relation to Text Mining!

03/05/2016

OpenMinTeD Project encourages your participation in a survey investigating needs in relation to Text Mining!The EU-funded project OpenMinTeD (2015 – 2018) is trying to foster and facilitate the use of Text Mining technologies in the scientific publications world and beyond.To that end, OpenMinTeD needs help from researchers in the Text Mining ...

BDE Webinar: New General Data Protection Regulation Adopted

02/05/2016

On April 14 the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was presented by the European Commission in January 2012. The Regulation shall apply 2 years after its formal adoption by the European Parliament and Council which now is the case. The regulations for processing personal data affect large areas ...