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Save the date: SEMIC 2016 - Semantic Interoperability Conference on data standards for interconnected Public Administrations

27/01/2016

Save the date:The annual conference on Semantic Interoperability for eGovernment (SEMIC 2016) organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission, will be held in Rome on Thursday, 12 May 2016.SEMIC offers a unique opportunity to explore how public administrations can use data standards to make information exchange efficient and effective, ...

New Webinar@AIMS: Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR

27/01/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to announce the webinar “Perspective on Big Data in the CGIAR”. It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and other interested people.AbstractTo help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data.  Within ...

EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot funds Journal Titles

27/01/2016

The list of funded requests keeps growing and has now reached nearly 200 publications!  An online list funded titles by this FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot is being maintained here.The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot provides an additional instrument to improve access to research results from FP7 projects  through ...

Data sharing and use of ICTs in agriculture: working with small farmer groups in Colombia: a new OA article!

26/01/2016

The site-specific agriculture project of the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) aimed to improve the productivity of four fruit crops in Colombia through the sharing of farmer’s knowledge using an online platform. CIAT’s knowledge management team supported the project investigating several questions, whose findings will be used ...

Mapping big data to existing food & beverage industry problems

25/01/2016

The 2013 report on “Formula for growth: Innovation, big data and analytics” developed by the US Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Deloitte Consulting L.L.P. is a very interesting one, outlining the opportunities that big data offers to food and beverage manufacturers, bringing the industry perspective to the big data ...