{"id":2157,"date":"2017-05-05T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:29:19","slug":"fao-database-offers-access-to-millions-of-ag-reference-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2017\/05\/fao-database-offers-access-to-millions-of-ag-reference-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO database offers access to millions of ag reference materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The FAO&#8217;s information team is holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/aims.fao.org\/activity\/blog\/agris-webinar-creating-user-profile-and-exploring-possibilities-agris-data\">webinar<\/a> about how to use the agency&#8217;s free database of agricultural research materials on 11 May at 16:00 Rome Time. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/converter.html\">Click here for a time zone converter.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Agricultural Information Management Standards Community launched a profile system for the AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) database a year ago, after a survey showed that users wanted that type of system.<\/p>\n<p>AGRIS\u00a0 is a global public database on agricultural science and technology; content is provided by participating institutions across the world that form the network of AGRIS centers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main objectives of AGRIS is to improve the access and exchange of information serving the information-related needs of developed and developing countries on a partnership basis. AGRIS contains more than 8 million bibliographic references on agricultural research and technology and links to related data resources on the Web, like DBPedia, World Bank, Nature, FAO Fisheries and FAO Country profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The webinar will be presented by Thembani Malapela of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who is responsible for\u00a0 AGRIS user-support and communication.<\/p>\n<p>The session is open to anyone but places are limited. Go to https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/OCR2Jv8hAofNnsnm1 to register, or email <a href=\"mailto:AIMS@fao.org\">AIMS@fao.org<\/a> with your name, affiliation, email and country to register.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAO&#8217;s information team is holding a webinar about how to use the agency&#8217;s free database of agricultural research materials on 11 May at 16:00 Rome Time. (Click here for a time zone converter.) The Agricultural Information Management Standards Community launched a profile system for the AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}