AIMS

Data Literature Interlink Service (DLI): a universal service bridging Data Centers and Publishers

16/03/2016

Research data publishing is today widely regarded as crucial for reproducibility and proper assessment of scientific results. Data-Literature Interlinking Service (DLI) - implemented under the umbrella of the RDA Data Publishing Services Working Group - is attempting to tackle this issue by providing links between the published literature and datasets. ...

Highlights from first and second IGAD outbreak sessions at RDA P7

15/03/2016

1st IGAD BREAKOUT GROUP AT THE RDA 7 –  Results of the IGAD Pre-Meeting RDA P7: adopting RDA outputsThe Interest Group for Agricultural (IGAD) got together at the Research Data Alliance 7th Plenary in Tokyo. Discussion groups from the breakout sessions produced some interesting results50 IGAD members – split into three key discussion ...

CELL5M: a geospatial data and analytics platform of harmonized multi-disciplinary data layers for agricultural research and development

15/03/2016

The HarvestChoice CELL5M Database was developed by International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI to move multidisciplinary data  underlying  agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa into one harmonized, geospatial database. CELL5M was recently presented by Jawoo Koo (IFPRI) at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting during the RDA Seventh Plenary Meeting, Tokyo (Japan)....

New collaboration - AGROVOC and the Georgian TECHINFORM

14/03/2016

TECHINFORM, the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, has joined the AGROVOC community of editors.As of the next release, AGROVOC will also include Georgian. This will happen thanks to the contribution of the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (TECHNIFORMI). AGROVOC team greatly appreciate this ...

Crop Ontology: harmonizing semantics for phenotyping and agronomy data

14/03/2016

The Crop Ontology project is the creation of the Generation Challenge Programme GCP of CGIAR,  which understood from its inception the importance of controlled vocabularies and ontologies for the digital annotation of data. The Crop Ontology was presented at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting before the RDA 7th Plenary, by Bioversity ...