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Rome (Italy): Call for Papers: Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures MTSR 2016

01/04/2016

Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures MTSR 2016http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/tracks/open-repositories Aim and Scope The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are traditionally the main way of ...

Communication channel: AGORA now has an active discussion forum on DGroups!

31/03/2016

The new group on the e-mail based dialogue platform is a place to stay informed about AGORA and to network At its heart DGroups is a dialogue platform that connects a partnership of groups working in international development. Designed to be as simple and inclusive as possible DGroups uses e-mail ...

Data and Metadata Working Group Project: the Citizen Science Data and Service Infrastructure

31/03/2016

With the growth of citizen science comes the challenge of coordinating people, projects, and data. But these challenges also present a tremendous opportunity: with proper standardization, data can support multiple projects, allowing citizen science to address ever-grander issues and problems (Data and Metadata in Italy: Reporting from the Citizen Science ...

The Bigness of Big Data: building your infrastructure base for agriculture

29/03/2016

How big data can transform (or improve) agriculture through the adoption of big agri-food data? The first step is to have the proper precision agriculture technologies, such as guidance, variable rate and yield monitoring, in place and have experience with it (Building your infrastructure base).(Source: The Era of Big ...

Legal Interoperability within the Agricultural Domain

24/03/2016

A presentation and discussion about legal interoperability was recently held in FAO within the context of EGI-Engage Project (Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons).This blog summarises briefly the concept of (i) legal interoperability and (ii) presents the AGRIS workflow as an example of an initiative dealing ...