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Meaningful combinations between two or more databases: The SemaGrow Stack is tested by the FAO AGRIS team

29/07/2015

The FAO AGRIS team is testing one of the main outcomes of the SemaGrow project, the SemaGrow Stack, with the objective to use this technology for the provision of meaningful information for AGRIS mash-up pages.The SemaGrow Stack implements a SPARQL endpoint that federates many other SPARQL endpoints and optimizes ...

Research4Life Training: An overview of the past year

29/07/2015

To make the best use of the Research4Life resources, training is one of the key and most important activities that our partners and programmes are committed to offer to our users. During the year thousands of librarians and researchers make use of our training material around the globe.Research4...

Be among the first ones that will get a free micro-site for their journals!

23/07/2015

A very hot August is almost round the corner, but Agro-Know is in full throttle working on the next release of our AKstem.com product. Our team is working on a service that will automatically set up a customised micro-site for institutions that make their bibliography available through AKstem to ...

AGROVOC improves the discoverability of "Good Practices" in the FAO Document Repository

23/07/2015

Early this year, "good practices" was added as a new term to AGROVOC. As the newest AGROVOC version was imported to the FAO Document Repository backend, records can now be tagged with “good practices” as one of the multilingual AGROVOC terms in the DocRep backend when uploading materials. Adding relevant ...

Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) Pre-Meeting

21/07/2015

The Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) prepares a pre-meeting on the 21st and 22nd of September 2015 in Paris to discuss current challenges of research data management and reflect about possible linkages with other interest and working groups in RDA. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global initiative reaching out ...