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Data in libraries: the big picture

15/12/2015

"Data in libraries ; the big picture" is the theme for the Call for Papers by the IFLA Information Technology Section in conjuction with the;Academic and Research Libraries’ Standing Committee, Big Data Special Interest Group and,the Semantic Web Special Interest Group are holding a one day satellite meeting at ...

The First NKOS Workshop at ICADL

14/12/2015

Following a highly successful series of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) workshops, the First NKOS Workshop at ICADL was marked as an NKOS workshop held for the first time in conjunction with the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), on 9th December 2015 at the Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea....

Exposing vocabularies for soil as Linked Open Data

11/12/2015

In a recent paper published in the journal Information Processing in Agriculture, entitled  "Exposing vocabularies for soil as Linked Open Data"  . Giovanni L’Abate , Caterina Caracciolo , Valeria Pesce , Guntram Geser , Vassilis Protonotarios , and  Edoardo A.C. Costantini review standards for describing soil data and reports on the work done with ...

Challenges and potentials of open data discussed at the GFIA panel session about open data for agricultural innovation

09/12/2015

The interactive panel session about "Open Data for Agricultural Innovation" was organized by the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)  initiative together with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). The session was part of the Global Forum ...

New Webinar@AIMS: Big Data challenges and solutions in agricultural and environmental research

04/12/2015

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to announce the webinar “Big Data challenges and solutions in agricultural and environmental research”. It will provide an overview of the role of Big Data in agro-environmental research.  It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and ...