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An update on AGROVOC web services

14/04/2017

AGROVOC team takes this opportunity to thank all AGROVOC editors, adopters and users and to inform all interested parties about updated AGROVOC web services._________________________________________________________________________________________________To date, all challenges connected with updating of AGROVOC web services have been ironed out. This also includes AGROVOC knowledge base (AllegroGraph WebView 4.11, SPARQL EndPoint, updated ...

FreeBook: Agroecology : The Bold Future of Farming in Africa

14/04/2017

(The book: Agroecology: the bold future of farming in Africa)This free publication examines pathways to sustainable, productive farming, including agroecology in Africa and examples from our global agricultural heritage.“If anyone still entertained doubts as to the benefits of agroecology and as to whether it can meet the challenges ...

Highlights from the IGAD outbreak sessions at RDA P9

13/04/2017

During the past # IGAD17RDA pre-meeting (3-4 April, Barcelona), the IGAD Thematic Groups presented the results on their activities, lessons learned and future strategic and action plans with the main focus on research data management and semantics.Did you know that the past #RDAPlenary  (3-7 April, 2017 Barcelona) gathered about 600 Data ...

Big Data Europe Platform: What? for Whom? and How? - Webinar recording is now available online

13/04/2017

As you may already know, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN is participating in the H2020 project “BDE: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe’s Societal Challenges”, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.BDE provides support mechanisms for all the major aspects ...

RDA - ENVRI Summer School on Data Management and Data Science

12/04/2017

Learn how to do FAIR compliant professional Data Management. Experience and practice with the latest software to manage and analyze data!_________________________________________________________________________________________________Data Science is a new methodology to better understand the complexity of environmental, living and societal systems and to exploit the huge amount of data being generated for scientific ...