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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
New AIMS members in AgriVIVO
Some time ago we introduced AgriVIVO to the AIMS community. AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field,...
18/07/2013
To enable better networking and collaboration in agriculture, AgriVIVO, managed by the GFAR Secretariat and developed jointly with Cornell University and FAO, has been launched: http://www.agrivivo....
25/04/2013