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Using big data for improving food safety

19/01/2016

The issue of the identification, registration and description of big datasets for agriculture, food and environment has been heavily discussed during the last years; however, an obvious question rises: How is big data actually used in practice for addressing actual issues in the agri-food sector? An article on Wired presents ...

The Future of Knowledge Sharing in a Digital Age: Exploring Impacts and Policy Implications for Development, IDS Evidence REPORT 125

19/01/2016

This evidence REPORT from IDS looks at the possible ways (with a 15-year horizon) in which digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas, and how development practitioners and policymakers might best respond.We live in a Digital Age that gives us instant access to information at greater and ...

The first release of the AgroPortal - a reference ontology repository dedicated to the requirements of the agronomic/plant community. Use AgroPortal to access and share ontologies!

18/01/2016

AgroPortal is the result of a collaboration between: LIRMM, INRA, IRD, Bioversity International, CIRAD and the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO) @ Stanford Univ, in order to improve Semantics in Agriculture on the Web. Sign in to AgroPortal to submit a new Ontology or ontology-based project, provide comments on Ontologies ...

New Webinar@AIMS: Under-representation of local needs in the global south in mainstream bibliographic databases. The case of rice research.

15/01/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation is pleased to announce the webinar “Under-representation of local needs in the global south in mainstream bibliographic databases. The case of rice research”. It will present the current research on this topic of Ismael Rafols, Tommaso Ciarli and Diego Chavarro from the Polytechnic University of ...

OPEN ACCESS updates from Austria

15/01/2016

The Open Access Network Austria (OANA) has published16 Recommendations on how to shift the academic publishing system to 100% Gold Open Access until 2025.These recommendations were presented at the Berlin12 Conference and to Austrian parliamentarians.Katja Mayer has published a Policy Brief on Open Science for the ERA Portal Austria.The ...