Searching an information database such as AGRIS requires also an awareness of some of the features of the service. In the first part of this series, “AGRIS Advanced Search Possibilities” we focused on how users can create effective search strategies using the a combination of syntaxes borrowed from the Boolean ...
The free GODAN e-learning course on Open Data and Research Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition - started on 13 November 2017 - is at the end of its second week.The course focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, ...
Alongside the Web Foundation’s Open Data Barometer, the Global Open Data Index (GODI) of the Open Knowledge International (OKI), - is one of the biggest assessments of the state of open government data globally. The latest State Of Open Government Data in 2017 report of the OKI shows, that data ...
Image sources: (1) The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP; the NextGen strategy encouraging the development of NextGen data, models, and knowledge tools to support decision makers); (2) OpenData Nederlands; (3) Forbes(*)(*) “There are hundreds (if not thousands) of free data sets available, ready to be used and analyzed by anyone willing ...
Why, how and where should researchers share their data? What do research institutions have to gain by embracing Open Science? In support of these and other questions about (and practices for) unleashing the power of Open Science through Open Data, in 2016, ASSAf launched The African Open Science Platform (AOSP). The ...
