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AgINFRA is an FP7 European project whose goal is to develop an infrastructure for scientific agricultural data and to improve service deployment for data.
The project ended on 15 February 2015...
20/04/2015
GFAR is participating together with FAO in the H2020 project "Big Data Europe: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe's Societal Challenges" (BDE).
The project is...
02/03/2015
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international initiative started in 2013 by a core group of agencies interested in all data-related aspects of research (the European Commission, the US...
02/10/2014
Through the CIARD RING, the global directory of datasets for agriculture maintained by the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR), institutions working in agriculture can now participate in...
01/10/2014
The CIARD (www.ciard.net) partners and the GODAN (www.godan.info) partners met in a joint GODAN-CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development, taking place in Rome between...
03/05/2014
The CIARD RING (http://ring.ciard.net) is a global directory of web-based information services and datasets for agriculture.
In the past, the scope of the RING was generically "information services...
10/01/2014
GFAR participated in the 1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability (https://sites.google.com/site/germplasminteroperability/), which took place between December 6th and...
21/12/2013
In November GFAR published the agINFRA LOD vocabularies platform (http://vocabularies.aginfra.eu) to facilitate the publication of Linked Open Data vocabularies by the various data providers involved...
12/12/2013
The SWIB Conference 2013 aimed to provide substantial information on Linked Open Data (LOD) developments relevant to the library world and to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences among...
08/12/2013
GFAR is participating in the agINFRA project (http://aginfra.eu) of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2). The project aims at “developing a shared infrastructure and...
20/11/2013