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Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) Beta 1.0 released

05/05/2015

The first beta of GACS, the Global Agricultural Concept Scheme, is out!See: http://tester-os-kktest.lib.helsinki.fi/gacsdemo/gacs/en/GACS explored the possibility of creating a global repository of concepts and terminology in the area of agriculture. This first beta is the result of the first experimental attempt, ...

Registration for AGORA Course Opens

04/05/2015

The registration for AGORA online course on ITOCA Moodle opens until places are filled (120 participants) , kindly register here . About the CourseThe course will be available on the ITOCA Moodle platform from 18 May 2015 to 18 June 2015, and will be offered in English. This 'AGORA Basic Course' is for individuals from AGORA registered ...

Introducing the BDE societal challenges: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine research and the bioeconomy

29/04/2015

From the Big Data Europe websiteWe start this series of blog posts on Big Data needs and opportunities for the various H2020 Societal Challenges covered by the BigDataEurope (BDE) project with some initial thoughts about Big Data in the area of ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine research and ...

Call for Nominations: The 4th Annual Open Access Awards

23/04/2015

The Electronic Publishing Trust is pleased to announce that it is offering its fourth annual award to individuals in developing and transition countries* who have made significant contributions to the advance of Open Access and the free exchange of research findings.Individuals may be nominated by themselves, by others or ...

New Webinar@AIMS, Fedora 4 :Introduction and Overview

23/04/2015

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Fedora 4: Introduction and Overview". This webinar will represent Fedora 4 and the webinar addresses publishers, librarians, information management specialists, software developers, (agricultural) journal editors, related data providers and other interested people.AbstractFedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for the management and ...