Paris,
16 August 2010
EFITA newsletter / 474 / European Federation for Information Technology in
Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Retirement
First welcome to the ranks of the retired!! Knowing you and based on my
experience I am sure you will find this situation as an enjoyable opportunity.
What are your plans - will you continue with the newsletter?
Wishing you a soft landing and all the best.
P.S. Will this remain your e-mail address? If not, where to send all the "retiree"
jokes?
Contact: Ehud GELB
E-mail: gelb(a)agri.huji.ac.il
My answer (GW): I will continue to edit this Newsletter as long as possible…
For the time being, my main e-mail remains the same.
Chinese Grain Buyers Tour Generates Optimism for Future US Exports
See: http://www.grains.org/news-events/
2579-chinese-grain-buyers-tour-generates-optimism-for-future-us-exports
International sugar beet and cane conference
Some 180 delegates from around the world were in attendance at the 10th
World Association of Beet and Cane Growers Conference, held in Cambridge on
19-21 July.
See: http://www.wabcg10.com/
Integrated weed management and herbicide resistance in Australia
See: http://www.grdc.com.au/weedlinks
Drupal for Community Supported Agriculture
See: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-csa
Voir : http://drupalfr.org/
Demo of AgriDrupal promoted by FAO
See: http://202.74.242.198/agridrupal/
EuroCRIS
Scientific research is only possible with adequate information and datasets.
This relates to the complete workflow, from grant application up to and including
peer-reviewed publications. Using CRIS (Current Research Information Systems),
which bring together the information that underpins this research, we can
avoid the risk of losing out on significant improvements in wealth and quality
of life.
See: http://www.eurocris.org/
DRIVER search portal
Access the network of freely accessible digital repositories with content
across academic disciplines with over 2,500,000 scientific publications, found
in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested
regularly from more than 249 repositories, from 33 countries.
See: http://www.driver-repository.eu/
A unified set of IT standards widely accepted by the intended class of
users in the Learning Education and Training Market
Standardization in the field of information technologies for learning,
education, and training to support individuals, groups, or organizations,
and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools…
See: http://www.sc36.org/index.jsp
OpenAIRE
Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs
without restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements.
It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published
– peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various
kinds. Learn more...
See: http://www.openaire.eu/
Alhambra declaration on Open Access
- Recommendations for policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe
- Action plan to develop OA in Southern Europe
See: http://oaseminar.fecyt.es/Publico/AlhambraDeclaration/index.aspx
Joys of men v. women: Who does what?
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee
each morning.
The wife said, 'You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't
have to wait as long to get our coffee.
The husband said, 'You are in charge of cooking around here and you should
do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.'
Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that
the man should do the coffee.'
Husband replies, ' I can't believe that, show me.'
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the
top of several pages, that it indeed says 'HEBREWS'
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