Access to data and digital technologies

  1. Smallholder’s Access to ICT
    My earliest memories on issues involving small holder farmers’ access to Information and Communication Technologies are with the introduction of the radio. I had recently migrated from Kenya to India in the early days of 1970 to study and everything was new and strange to me, including…
  2. Preliminary Work towards Publishing Vocabularies for Germplasm and Soil Data as Linked Data
    The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) used to describe and classify them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of publishing agricultural Linked Open Data (…
  3. New RING platform launched: focus on datasets
    The CIARD RING (http://ring.ciard.net) is a global directory of web-based information services and datasets for agriculture. The platform is managed by GFAR under the umbrella of CIARD (http://www.ciard.net).  In the past, the scope of the RING was generically "information services and…
  4. Call for Papers: AgriFuture Days 2014
      2014 is the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF). The theme of this years’ Agrifuture Days 2014 conference is “ICTs enabling Family Farming”. The Annual AgriFuture Days 2014 conference will take place from June 16th to 18th at Villach, Austria.   The Club of Ossiach, as…
  5. GFAR participates in the 1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Interoperability
    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 December 20th, 2013 and was jointly organized by Bioversity International, Food and Agriculture…
  6. Work started in agINFRA on a Soil LOD Vocabulary for sharing soil data
    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 in the project. The agINFRA project (http://aginfra.eu) of the European Commission (EC 7th…
  7. AgriVIVO presented at an invited talk at Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) 2013
    The SWIB 2013 (http://swib.org/swib13/) organizing committee invited GFAR to give a talk on AgriVIVO to present to participants a concrete example of a Linked Data approach to research information.       AgriVIVO (www.agrivivo.net) is a search portal recently launched by GFAR in…
  8. Publication of the agINFRA LOD vocabulary platform
    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 computationally empowered services for agricultural research data”.         GFAR has an…
  9. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative Launch
    The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative is a voluntary association brought together around a shared purpose. The initiative will be officially announced at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) conference in London on October 31. The GODAN initiative seeks to support…
  10. GFAR participating in the agINFRA project of the European Commission
    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 computationally empowered services for agricultural research data”, with a strong focus on “…
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