AIMS

Agritrop, the CIRAD publications database becomes an open institutional repository

03/07/2015

The CIRAD publications database, Agritrop (http://agritrop.cirad.fr/), was recently converted into an institutional open repository. With more than 90 000 references, 20 000 full-text documents including 12 000 documents freely accessible on the Internet, this new version gives CIRAD's publications greater visibility, particularly co-publications by CIRAD and its Southern partners on agricultural research and ...

Provide your feedback!! Giving Researchers Credit for their Data: Repositories and Publishes

30/06/2015

JISC is supporting F1000Research to research the case for and develop an API and ‘helper app’ that allows researchers who have deposited data in a repository to automatically submit a ‘data article’ to a journal at the click of a button. The proposed API will transfer data and metadata ...

The new SWALIM website is now Online!

29/06/2015

The Somalia Water and Land Information Management Project (SWALIM) is pleased to announce the launch of their brand new website on www.faoswalim.org (for reference, the old Website is still available online at old.faoswalim.org until the end of July 2015). The new site is expected to provide information ...

Hackathon on "The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety"

29/06/2015

Are you interested in Linked Data and how it can be used in agriculture? Would you like to develop tools that can help researchers to discover the resources they need. The upcoming hackaton entitled "The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety". Read the full abstact and announcement ...

Call to Action: Be a part of the European map of big data in agriculture and food

26/06/2015

Are you working with Big Data in the agri-food sector? Share the information of your research project & institution and be a part of the European map of big data in agriculture and food.The agINFRA initiative, as the community-specific reference point for research activities in the agri-food sector funded by ...