AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities.
This webinar will present AGRIS international initiative and partnership in the usage of AGRIS bibliographic data as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the basic fundamentals of AGRIS, overview the AGRIS interface, and how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
By Thembani Malapela, Knowledge and Information Management Officer at FAO of the United Nations.
21 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is one of the many bibliographic databases used for locating agricultural information online, others examples include PubAg, TEEAL and CAB Abstracts.
AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data it retrieves related content across online information systems by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. Through AGRIS core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved thereby enriching the search results.
This webinar will present the AGRIS international initiative and partnership, looking at how AGRIS bibliographic data acts as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the fundamentals of AGRIS, give an overview of the AGRIS interface, and show how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
About Thembani Malapela
Thembani Malapela works as Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Currently, he is responsible for AGRIS user support and communications and in evaluating various ways of improving the AGRIS user experience.
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 4 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology.
Agris international system for agricultural science and technologyavid
AGRIS is the International bibliographic Information System for the Agricultural sciences and technology. It became operational in 1975 and since then AGRIS has accumulated a database of more than 2.8 million bibliographic references .
AGRIS is managed centrally by the WAICENT(WORLD AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION CENTER)/FAOINFO Dissemination Management Branch of the Library and Documentation Systems Division of FAO
By Thembani Malapela, Knowledge and Information Management Officer at FAO of the United Nations.
21 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is one of the many bibliographic databases used for locating agricultural information online, others examples include PubAg, TEEAL and CAB Abstracts.
AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data it retrieves related content across online information systems by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. Through AGRIS core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved thereby enriching the search results.
This webinar will present the AGRIS international initiative and partnership, looking at how AGRIS bibliographic data acts as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the fundamentals of AGRIS, give an overview of the AGRIS interface, and show how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
About Thembani Malapela
Thembani Malapela works as Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Currently, he is responsible for AGRIS user support and communications and in evaluating various ways of improving the AGRIS user experience.
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 4 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology.
Agris international system for agricultural science and technologyavid
AGRIS is the International bibliographic Information System for the Agricultural sciences and technology. It became operational in 1975 and since then AGRIS has accumulated a database of more than 2.8 million bibliographic references .
AGRIS is managed centrally by the WAICENT(WORLD AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION CENTER)/FAOINFO Dissemination Management Branch of the Library and Documentation Systems Division of FAO
A presentation at the German National Library, at the German Coalition for Networked Information, the theme of which was "Linked Data-- Vision and Reality"
The goal of the GACS project is to create a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme as a hub for thesauri in the agricultural field, in multiple languages, for use in Linked Data.The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CAB International (CABI), and the National Agricultural Library of the USA (NAL) agreed in October 2013 to explore the feasibility of developing a shared concept scheme by integrating their three thesauri: the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, the CAB Thesaurus (CABT), and NAL Thesaurus (NALT).
Agro-Know & the European agricultural research information ecosystemNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk to members of the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), on September 19th, 2014.
Devika Madali of ISI shares experience working with agINFRA and RDA in building standards with respect to different aspects of open knowledge repositories.
Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in AgricultureLIBER Europe
This presentation by Imma Subirats was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiativesICRISAT
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes projects under one roof, a digital hub has been developed to capture learnings and impacts of crop varietal development and distribution initiatives taken up under the projects. Developed by Scriptoria, the hub has a resource center with over 250 vital resources, from scientific articles to policy briefs, and interactive country maps. The projects’ impacts are brought to life in an engaging, highly visual digital story.
Introduction to knowledge sharing systems: considerations for the conceptual ...Nikos Manouselis
Presentation on initial recommendations for the TAPipedia information sharing platform of the G20 Tropical Agriculture Platform (http://www.tropagplatform.org).
A presentation at the ‘Programme for the OA advocacy workshop for Agricultural Scientists and Professionals’, Hotel Inter Tropics, Uganda.The presentation summarizes the role of Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) in supporting open access to data and knowledge in the agricultural domain.
Research Data Management at International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRICIARD Movement
Luz Marina Alvaré, Head, Knowledge Management at IFPRI, at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), invites scientists and development actors to submit applications for publication of book chapter in an open-access book investigating opportunities and obstacles to scaling up CSA, the Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers (‘CSA Papers’).
Read more: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/call-contributions-critical-investigation-supporting-scale-climate-smart-agriculture
In this workshop, we will talk about how to add functionality to Amazon Alexa and bring voice-enabled technology to the classroom. We will create an Alexa skill, add content to that skill, and make it ready to publish to your device, your classroom or even the world!
AI for Educators: How to teach students to thrive in an AI-infused WorldAI Leadership Institute
3 Ways to Thrive in an AI-Infused World
Tune in to get insights you need now with industry expert Noelle Silver to understand the power of AI as an inclusive tool to support education effectively, ethically and prepare students to thrive in an AI infused world.
By Thomas Ingraham, Publishing Editor at F1000Research
15 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar covers three emerging themes in life science publishing, which will begin to influence the way in which the agricultural researchers share and access knowledge:
Faster dissemination: Publishing scientific articles is often a lengthy process, taking several months or even years from first submission. This prevents the research community and others from being able to act on new knowledge quickly, which is especially serious in emergency situations such as emerging infectious diseases. This webinar will cover two ways of tackling publication delays: preprint servers and post-publication peer review platforms.
Increased access & transparency: Open Access has helped remove access barriers to a vast body of scientific knowledge. Other important research outputs that have historically been difficult to access are starting to be published more frequently such as replications, data, code and referee reports.
Assessment of research: Researches are assessed by their publication record. Journal title and Impact Factor tend to be the default assessment criteria, though there is growing awareness of the disadvantages of these approaches, and alternative measures of quality and impact are gaining ground.
About Thomas Ingraham:
Tom is the Publishing Editor at F1000Research and has been involved with the publisher’s open science and editorial development since its inception in 2012. He manages several channels published on F1000Research, including those focussing on agriculture, and is the lead on several of the publisher’s open data-orientated projects.
By by Kristin Kolshus, Information Management Specialist at FAO of the United Nations.
22 February 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of the AGORA programme for interested institutions in eligible countries. AGORA is one of the four Research4Life programmes. The webinar will present AGORA, a programme to provide free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. The webinar will focus on the eligibility, the registration, terms of use, and the types of resources covered.
About Kristin Kolshus
Kristin Kolshus is an Information Management Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Africa. She focuses on capacity development on access to scientific information, information management, and knowledge sharing, especially through AGORA and Research4Life.
A presentation at the German National Library, at the German Coalition for Networked Information, the theme of which was "Linked Data-- Vision and Reality"
The goal of the GACS project is to create a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme as a hub for thesauri in the agricultural field, in multiple languages, for use in Linked Data.The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CAB International (CABI), and the National Agricultural Library of the USA (NAL) agreed in October 2013 to explore the feasibility of developing a shared concept scheme by integrating their three thesauri: the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, the CAB Thesaurus (CABT), and NAL Thesaurus (NALT).
Agro-Know & the European agricultural research information ecosystemNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk to members of the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), on September 19th, 2014.
Devika Madali of ISI shares experience working with agINFRA and RDA in building standards with respect to different aspects of open knowledge repositories.
Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in AgricultureLIBER Europe
This presentation by Imma Subirats was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiativesICRISAT
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes projects under one roof, a digital hub has been developed to capture learnings and impacts of crop varietal development and distribution initiatives taken up under the projects. Developed by Scriptoria, the hub has a resource center with over 250 vital resources, from scientific articles to policy briefs, and interactive country maps. The projects’ impacts are brought to life in an engaging, highly visual digital story.
Introduction to knowledge sharing systems: considerations for the conceptual ...Nikos Manouselis
Presentation on initial recommendations for the TAPipedia information sharing platform of the G20 Tropical Agriculture Platform (http://www.tropagplatform.org).
A presentation at the ‘Programme for the OA advocacy workshop for Agricultural Scientists and Professionals’, Hotel Inter Tropics, Uganda.The presentation summarizes the role of Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) in supporting open access to data and knowledge in the agricultural domain.
Research Data Management at International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRICIARD Movement
Luz Marina Alvaré, Head, Knowledge Management at IFPRI, at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), invites scientists and development actors to submit applications for publication of book chapter in an open-access book investigating opportunities and obstacles to scaling up CSA, the Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers (‘CSA Papers’).
Read more: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/call-contributions-critical-investigation-supporting-scale-climate-smart-agriculture
In this workshop, we will talk about how to add functionality to Amazon Alexa and bring voice-enabled technology to the classroom. We will create an Alexa skill, add content to that skill, and make it ready to publish to your device, your classroom or even the world!
AI for Educators: How to teach students to thrive in an AI-infused WorldAI Leadership Institute
3 Ways to Thrive in an AI-Infused World
Tune in to get insights you need now with industry expert Noelle Silver to understand the power of AI as an inclusive tool to support education effectively, ethically and prepare students to thrive in an AI infused world.
By Thomas Ingraham, Publishing Editor at F1000Research
15 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar covers three emerging themes in life science publishing, which will begin to influence the way in which the agricultural researchers share and access knowledge:
Faster dissemination: Publishing scientific articles is often a lengthy process, taking several months or even years from first submission. This prevents the research community and others from being able to act on new knowledge quickly, which is especially serious in emergency situations such as emerging infectious diseases. This webinar will cover two ways of tackling publication delays: preprint servers and post-publication peer review platforms.
Increased access & transparency: Open Access has helped remove access barriers to a vast body of scientific knowledge. Other important research outputs that have historically been difficult to access are starting to be published more frequently such as replications, data, code and referee reports.
Assessment of research: Researches are assessed by their publication record. Journal title and Impact Factor tend to be the default assessment criteria, though there is growing awareness of the disadvantages of these approaches, and alternative measures of quality and impact are gaining ground.
About Thomas Ingraham:
Tom is the Publishing Editor at F1000Research and has been involved with the publisher’s open science and editorial development since its inception in 2012. He manages several channels published on F1000Research, including those focussing on agriculture, and is the lead on several of the publisher’s open data-orientated projects.
By by Kristin Kolshus, Information Management Specialist at FAO of the United Nations.
22 February 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of the AGORA programme for interested institutions in eligible countries. AGORA is one of the four Research4Life programmes. The webinar will present AGORA, a programme to provide free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. The webinar will focus on the eligibility, the registration, terms of use, and the types of resources covered.
About Kristin Kolshus
Kristin Kolshus is an Information Management Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Africa. She focuses on capacity development on access to scientific information, information management, and knowledge sharing, especially through AGORA and Research4Life.
By Jennifer Chapin, Programme Manager, AuthorAID at INASP.
1 March 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar will provide an overview of the AuthorAID website and programme of support, including the online courses in research writing, mentoring support and resources. The impact of the AuthorAID programme and the lessons learnt in low income countries will also be covered.
About Jennifer Chapin
Jennifer coordinates the communication of research at INASP, managing the AuthorAID programme to support the capacity of researchers in developing countries. Joining INASP in 2016, Jennifer spent the previous four years at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in London, a role which included developing research best practice and quality assurance, supporting the development of actuarial research with 300 researchers worldwide. Holding an MA in Education and International Development, she previously worked in education strategy for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and, since 2010, has also acted as director of a gender equality in education programme in Togo through a Canada-Togo partnership.
By Chenjerai Mabhiza, Head of User Services at the University of Namibia
17 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
By Joy Paulson, the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University.
24 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, is a database that provides access to peer-reviewed, research journals in Agriculture and related-sciences without the need for internet connectivity. Currently TEEAL provides access to 450 research journals. Additionally, TEEAL also begun to provide access to non-journal research material that can be difficult to find and access. The first collection is research sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners and grantees.
TEEAL is delivered on a small-footprint computer that can be plugged into an institution’s local area network (LAN) or a stand-alone computer. When connected to an institution’s LAN, TEEAL is available across the institution to all members of the institutions community.
This webinar will introduce the TEEAL database, explore its collections, and demonstrate methods for browsing and effectively searching to identify the research the user needs. Eligibility for TEEAL and costs will also be discussed. There will be an opportunity for questions.
About Joy Paulson
Joy Paulson is the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University. She has been the Director of TEEAL for over 5 years, and she has taught international workshops on using TEEAL and other electronic resources, information literacy, scientific writing, and digital project management Africa and South Asia. Her previous work focused on developing digital library collections.
Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This is especially important in agriculture and nutrition research where quick, unrestricted access to knowledge is crucial to solving urgent issues including food security, biodiversity conservation, and emerging infectious diseases in crops and animals.
This webinar will cover how the novel approaches taken by the publication venue Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development (OKAD) and the publishing platform it is hosted on, F1000Research, are addressing these issues. OKAD publishes academic articles, posters and slide presentations involving open knowledge projects within all areas of agriculture, nutrition and agro-biodiversity. By using F1000Research’s post-publication peer review platform, OKAD ensures rapid access to research within days of submission. Experts are invited to peer review upon publication, and their signed peer review reports are published alongside the article. All articles and any associated data and code are made publically available.
With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF publishing tools, those tools are not very well suited for SKOS data, because they cannot support term-based searching and lookup.
This webinar presents Skosmos, an open source web-based SKOS vocabulary browser that uses a SPARQL endpoint as its backend. It can be used by e.g. libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto, operated by the National Library of Finland, is built using Skosmos.
Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has been developed by analyzing the results of repeated usability tests. All of the SKOS data is made available as Linked Data. A developer-friendly REST API is also available providing access for using vocabularies in other applications such as annotation systems.
We will describe what kind of infrastructure is necessary for Skosmos and how to set it up for your own SKOS data. We will also present examples where Skosmos is being used around the world.
Global Information Systems for Plant Genetic Resources (2009)Dag Endresen
Global information systems for plant genetic resources. For the Caucasus germplasm network training course at the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp Sweden 29th January 2009.
This presentation summarizes the advancements towards the completing the work described in GBIF Work Programme Update 2016.
It was composed by different members from the GBIF Secretariat. This particular version was shared during the European Nodes Meeting in Lisbon the 19 April 2016.
Developing Agricultural Research Information Systems. The experience of the G...Valeria Pesce
Presented by Ajit Maru at the WCCA Congress 2010 held in Reno, US.
The role of the Global Forum has been that of fostering and supporting the development of agricultural research information systems at national, regional and global levels. This cross-stakeholder vision has allowed GFAR to have a privileged perspective on the evolution of the approach to building ARD information systems.
A.K Jain, the head of AKMU , IARI shared his experience of implementation of Koha - Open Source ILS - Integrated Library System and CeRA - Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture.
Prototype germplasm data portal (2006)Dag Endresen
Prototype Germplasm Data Portal, predecessor for the ALIS-Global of the GIGA project. Presentation for the Nordic Gene Bank board meeting on 4th December 2006.
Sharing of germplasm data sets, at the TDWG 2006 conferenceDag Endresen
Data exchange for germplasm data sets with PyWrapper/BioCASE. TDWG 2006 conference, 16th October 2006, St. Louis. Dag Endresen, Johan Bäckman, Helmut Knupffer, Samy Gaiji.
The webinar will present the keyword extractor AgroTagger. AgroTagger is a tool based on MAUI that uses the AGROVOC thesaurus as its set of allowable keywords. It can read the fulltext of publications through the extraction of related AGROVOC keywords.
The IMLS-funded project Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) has created a "Competency Index for Linked Data".
The Index provides a concise and readable map of concepts and skills related to the practices and technologies of Linked Data for the benefit of interested learners and their teachers.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) has developed a Catalogue of Metadata standards and tools aimed at researchers and those who support them. In its new version, the Metadata Standards Catalog will provide much greater detail about metadata standards and tools, and through its new API - it will be usable within other applications. It will also provide a platform for furthering the work of the RDA Metadata Interest Group, which is seeking to improve the interoperability of metadata in different standards by working towards semi-automatically generated converters.
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) calls for the contribution of non confidential information about the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) to the Global Information System (GLIS) to facilitate access to such information by any party interested. The foundation of GLIS is the accurate identification of the PGRFA to which the information is associated. After extensive research and consultation, DOIs have been selected as the Permanent Unique Identifier of choice for GLIS.
The webinar describes the challenges that the GLIS team of the ITPGRFA has faced as well as the benefits that the GLIS user community will receive by the adoption of DOIs.
Initially developed by FAO of the UN in the context of the NeOn project as a collaborative environment for the development of the AGROVOC thesaurus, later generalized to a SKOS-XLdevelopment platform in the context of a collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vergata, VocBench is now reaching its third incarnation.
VocBench 3 (or simply, VB3), is the new version of VocBench, funded by the European Commission ISA² programme, and with development managed by the Publications Office of the EU, under contract 10632 (Infeurope S.A.).
VB3 will offer a powerful editing environment, with facilities for collaborative management of OWL ontologies and SKOS/SKOS-XL thesauri. VB3 will surpass its predecessor with native support for OWL, SKOS and SKOS-XL, completely rewritten components for better User Interface, User Management, History Tracking and Validation&Publication Workflow.
Research activities rely on access and repeatability of results. Accurate identification of the subject of the research as well as of the techniques and methods used is critical to obtain reliable results.
The adoption of Permanent Unique Identifiers, and specifically Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)promotes access and reusability of data in modern research. The webinar begins with some basic concepts on Permanent Unique Identifiers. Next, DOIs are introduced describing how they are managed, how they can be obtained and how their features can be of benefit to researchers in a wide range of fields.
The FAIR principles have been introduced as a guideline for good scientific data stewardship. They have gained momentum at a management level and are now for example part of the project template for EU Horizon 2020 projects. This raises the question what research groups and projects can do to implement them. Hugo Besemer will introduce the ideas behind the FAIR principles.
By Ignasi Labastida is the Head of the Office the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Universitat de Barcelona
25 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
In 2006 the University of Barcelona launched the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge (ODK) in order to make visible its commitment with openness started in 2003 when it joined Creative Commons as its host institution in Spain. Currently the ODK is based in the library and during these ten years has been involved in many activities, events, project and trainings to foster openness in any academic level from education to research. In this webinar, Dr. Labastida will explain how they have been developing this work and how the community has reacted.
By Sander Janssen, Research Team Leader of Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics at Alterra, Wageningen UR,
12 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This presentation focus on the political context of open data publishing, methodological frameworks for estimating the impacts of open data and highlight the Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research as publication channel for open data sets. It will also build on personal reflections on publishing open data from Dr. Janssen’s own research career.
For more on the topic: http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/join-free-webinar-publishing-open-data-agricultural-research
Le programme Research4Life est un partenariat public-privé entre l’OMS, la FAO, le PNUE, l’OMPI, les Universités Cornell et Yale, des partenaires technologiques et plus de 200 éditeurs scientifiques représentés par l’Association internationale des éditeurs de la STM.
Le programme fournit aux pays à revenu plus faible et moyen, un accès gratuit ou à faible coût aux plus grandes collections de publications en ligne. Les bibliothèques admissibles au programme bénéficient de plus de 68 000 revues scientifiques internationales, livres et bases de données dans les domaines de la santé, de l’agriculture, de l’environnement et de la technologie.
L’objectif de Research4Life est de réduire l’écart des connaissances entre les pays industrialisés et les pays en développement.
Ce webinaire présente comment Research4Life fonctionne, comment le programme est structuré et qui peut se joindre au partenariat. Il donnera un aperçu de l’accès aux quatre programmes Hinari, AGORA, OARE et ARDI qui composent Research4Life.
De plus, il présentera brièvement la formation gratuite disponible sur les sites web sur les compétences des auteurs, les outils de gestion de référence mais aussi fournira des exemples de comment Research4Life fait la différence pour de nombreux établissements de recherche aujourd’hui.
Research4Life es una colaboración pública-privada de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la FAO, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), las bibliotecas de las universidades de Cornell y Yale, la Asociación Internacional STM y más de 200 editoriales internacionales. Brinda acceso libre o de bajo costo a contenido en línea revisado por pares académicos y profesionales en países en vías de desarrollo.
Instituciones elegibles y sus empleados y estudiantes tienes derecho a acceder a hasta 68,000 recursos de las principales revistas, bases de datos y del Internet en los ámbitos de la agricultura, las ciencias biológicas, medio ambientales y sociales relacionadas.
La meta de Research4Life es empoderar a instituciones científicas es países con bajos y medios ingresos y reducir las brechas en el conocimiento.
Este seminario mostrará el funcionamiento y la construcción de Research4Life, así como también quién puede participar en la colaboración. Presentará los cuatro programas de Research4Life: Hinari, AGORA, OARE y ARDI, que brindan acceso a los ámbitos mencionados. Además ofrecerá un resumen sobre capacitación proporcionada en la página web sobre competencias de la autoría, herramientas de la gestión de referencias etc. y proporcionará ejemplos de cómo Research4Life hace una diferencia para muchas instituciones científicas.
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and over 200 international scientific publishers. It provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Eligible libraries and their users benefit from online access to up to 68,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases in the areas of health, agriculture, environment and technology.
The overall goal of Research4Life is to empower research institutions in developing countries and to reduce knowledge gaps.
This webinar will illustrate how Research4Life works, how it is constructed and who can join the partnership. It will briefly present the four Research4Life programs Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI that provide access to the aforementioned research areas. Furthermore it will give an overview about free training provided on the website about authorship skills reference management tools etc. and provide examples of how Research4Life could make a difference for many research institutions already.
To help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data. Within the programme on Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), researchers have already applied Big Data analytics to agricultural and weather records in Colombia, revealing how climate variation impacts rice yields. After defining its Open Data-Open Access strategy, CGIAR has launched an internal call for proposals for big data analytics platforms that will provide services to the Agri-Food system programmes and parners, and will interconnect the CGIAR data to other multi-disciplinary big data. The seminar will present the pespectives of the envisioned platforms.
Although the main bibliometric databases (Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus) claim to include journals on the basis of scientific and publication standards, there have long been concerns that its coverage is biased in favour of journals from industrialised countries and towards topics relevant to these countries. This webinar presents an investigation of this claim for research on rice, comparing the database CAB Abstracts with the mainstream databases. We find clear evidence that for a field such as rice, statistics based on WoS and Scopus strongly under-represent the scientific production by developing countries, and over-represent production by industrialised countries. More importantly, we also find a substantial bias in coverage of different research topics. The study suggests that statistics based on mainstream databases provide a significantly distorted view of the amount of research and diversity of agendas in most countries. Given that bibliometric statistics are often used for benchmarking and evaluation purposes, the database biases may translate into policy framings that undervalue domestic capabilities and research agendas more attuned to local needs in the global south.
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Abstract
"INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenges" webinar will give a perspective on big data and implementation challenges for agronomic research organisations such as the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). The presenter will focus on the characteristics of big data in agriculture using a specific case study on high throughput plant phenotyping where a lot of heterogeneous data need to be generated and managed. This use case shows how to deal with variety of data.
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
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4. Demo
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Using AGRIS as a portal of choice to access agricultural research and technology information
1. Using AGRIS as a portal of choice
to access agricultural information
An AGRIS webinar presentation for the Webinars@AIMS
by Thembani Malapela
April 2016
AGRIS - International System for Agricultural Science and Technology 1
2. Presentation outline
AGRIS: An Introduction
What is AGRIS?
AGRIS Collection, AGRIS Network, AGRIS Web portal &
AGRIS LOD Dataset
Who uses AGRIS
The AGRIS Portal
How to search the AGRIS Portal
Multilingual search
How to search retrieve full text documents?
Overview of Data submission workflow
Questions 2
3. AGRIS: An Introduction
Started in 1975, to help partners promote their
scientific production
- These were ministries and research centres in agriculture from different
countries.
In practice, this core bibliographic repository
was contributed by partners, compiled &
disseminated by FAO (on paper, CD, now
portal)
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4. What is AGRIS?
The International System for Agricultural Science
and Technology. Today AGRIS is,
A collection of more than 8 million multilingual
bibliographic resources.
A network of more than 150 institutions from 65
countries
A linked open data set
A Web portal (http://agris.fao.org/)
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5. Who uses AGRIS?
Graduate students, lecturers and researchers
in academic institutions
Librarians, cataloguers , and other information
professionals
Publishers and professional associations
Government officials
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6. i. The AGRIS Collection
8,327,188 multilingual bibliographic records
– 400,000 from Latin America
– 150,000 from Africa
– 760,000 from Asia + 400,000 links to CSDD (China)
Links to the full text explicit/implicit through
Google
- Collection includes Books (31,000) , Bibliographies (366,000) Conference
Papers (286,000), journal articles (5,000,000), thesis (62,000), and others
(250,000).
250 million triples
Languages – English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian,
German, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Farsi 6
7. ii. The AGRIS Network
7http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/agrisMap.do
8. iii. The AGRIS LOD Dataset
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All records in AGRIS are indexed with
AGROVOC
–Manually, by the partner
–Automatically, by AGRIS
AGROVC is a LOD resource
– AGROVOC links to Voc
– Voc indexes Data
– AGRIS links to Data
AGROVOC keywords are also used to query
external Web Services
20. AGRIS - International System for
Agricultural Science and Technology
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Example of Filtering by Data Provider
21. 21
Multilingual Search Functionality
A detailed blog on multilingual search entitled Focus on AGRIS
multilingual search is available at http://bit.ly/1RNFQRw
26. 26
Brief summary of submitting data to
AGRIS
Submission done via the AGRIS AkStem Service at
http://www.akstem.com/agris/
The service is for AGRIS content Providers
Data Processing is done through a partnership
with AGROKNOW in Greece
Brief Steps
Content Providers submit request
AGROKNOW Data Processing Unit and AGROKNOW Stem
team processes the request and activate the dashboard
In the dashbard content providers submit information about
their contact person, theirinstitutional details and their collection.
Provider submits data.
28. AGRIS - International System for
Agricultural Science and Technology
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Useful Sources of Information about
AGRIS
1. AGRIS Website . http://agris.fao.org/content/about
2. Contributing bibliographic information to AGRIS.
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/contributing-bibliographic-information-agris
3. AGRIS Subject Categories. http://www.fao.org/scripts/agris/c-categ.htm
4. AGRIS Journal Papers – Search AGRIS at http://eprints.rclis.org/cgi/search/advanced
Documentary Repository http://www.fao.org/publications/search/en/
agris@fao.org
30. • Which additional services would you like to see in
AGRIS? We refer to both AGRIS website
functionalities and to the possibility to use AGRIS
data through online services
• Do you think AGRIS should improve its content
coverage, becoming as PubMed for life sciences?
• Which latent knowledge do you think we can extract
from 8 million AGRIS records? Thus, by analysing
data, is it possible to derive new useful knowledge?
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What's your Opinion on these 3 points
agris@fao.org