Webinars

AIMS

AIMS offers access to free webinars to all interested parties on a variety of information, data and knowledge. Topics include: open access, open data, research data management, knowledge information systems, data curation, metadata, linked open data, big data, open tools and standards supporting stewardship of information and data in agriculture, along with other domains.

12.12.2019
RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: 'Mobilizing Capacity Development for Bridging the Digital Divide in Agriculture'
As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA)/ Agricultural Data Interest Group's (IGAD) ongoing webinar series, aimed to keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and encourage the free flow of ideas, the latest webinar took place on 12 December 2019. The webinar focused on Mobilizing Capacity Development for Bridging ...
20.11.2019
RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: ‘Global Long-term Experiments in Agriculture Network (GLTEN) Metadata Portal’
As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA)/ Agricultural Data Interest Group's (IGAD) ongoing webinar series, aimed to keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and encourage the free flow of ideas, the latest webinar took place on 20 November 2019. This webinar focused on ‘Global Long-term Experiments in Agriculture ...
31.10.2019
"Strengthening AGROVOC through engagement with expert communities: Multischeme multihierarchy and thesaurus management"
This Webinar was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). BACKGROUND This webinar will introduce how the AGROVOC team of FAO keeps AGROVOC up to date with a number of institutions and individual domain experts serving as focal points for specific languages and topics. With ...
29.10.2019
How to submit data to AGRIS – Creation of xml files with free reference management tools
This Webinar was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 29 October 2019. BACKGROUND This webinar will introduce how to submit data to AGRIS - from the selection of metadata to the creation of xml files. AGRIS (the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is ...
04.05.2018
AGRIS for Agricultural Information Users
This Webinar is co-organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) together with Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA). The webinar introduces AGRIS (the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology), - a global public domain database with (as of May 2018) more than 9 ...
06.04.2018
AGRIS for Agricultural Information Data providers
BACKGROUND This webinar will introduce AGRIS (the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology), a global public domain database with more than 9 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. AGRIS covers the wide range of subjects related to agriculture science and technology, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences ...
22.03.2018
Dgroups: Building Effective Online Communities in Your Organization
Have you ever looked for an easy solution to create networks and communities of practice within your organization?Would you like a simple, non-commercial tool, respectful of privacy for team discussions?, - In need of a knowledge exchange solution that is compatible with low bandwidth users in the South?Then, ...
24.01.2018
Webinar: Strategies for supporting collaborations, relationships for opening data in agriculture
The free GODAN e-learning course on Open Data and Research Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data. This course is enriched by a number of Webinars ...
24.01.2018
Webinar : What is GODAN? Network, Action & Secretariat
The free GODAN e-learning course on Open Data and Research Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data. This course is enriched by a number of Webinars ...
19.01.2018
Using Open Data (from joint GODAN Action e-learning course on Open Data)
The free GODAN e-learning course on Open Data and Research Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data. This course is enriched by a number of Webinars ...