[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary Outputs from the RDA Agriculture data sessions

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Suchith for the outreach. Promoting "open principles" is an
important part of OSGeo and I am glad you are seeing some success.

Is there any way in which OSGeo can support you better (or be more
effective) research data alliance?

--
Jody Garnett

On 8 May 2017 at 12:11, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Jody, I am doing my best to promote open principles in education (open
> data, open standards, open software, open educational resources) as best as
> I can in activities that I am involved. For the activities I am involved
> esp in the Geospatial IG  in RDA (that I chair)  I am doing my best to
> promote  open principles. It is key we reach out to the wider open
> communities and build synergies wherever possible. It is also important to
> learn from other communities and different view points. The Research Data
> Alliance is a key and rapidly expanding and influential community that we
> need to engage with proactively.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> Sent: 07 May 2017 5:18 PM
> To: Anand Suchith
> Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary Outputs from the RDA Agriculture data
> sessions
>
> So what is the open source angle of this Suchith? Are we promoting the
> idea of open source analysis to go with open data / open science?
> Or is open source just being assumed...
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 6 May 2017 at 01:46, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Dear colleague,
>
> The Research Data Alliance Plenary Meetings constitute a major event where
> more than 4000 members from 100 countries come together to discuss, develop
> and promote data-sharing and data-driven research infrastructure through
> Working and Interest Groups. The 9th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance
> under the theme #DataInfrastructures for #OpenScience - aimed to explore
> how best to exploit the data revolution to improve science and society
> through data-driven discovery and innovation.
>
> The Interest Group on Agriculture Data had a pre-meeting  (3 to 4 April
> 2017)  brought together more than 110 top data scientists (from more than
> 35 countries and from 5 continents). The summary is now available at
> http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/highlights-igad-outbreak-sessions-rda-p9
>
>
>
> Slides of the IGAD Pre-Meeting in Barcelona are now published in the Open
> knowledge in agricultural development (OKAD) channel of F1000research and
> can be accessed at
> https://f1000research.com/channels/okad?&selectedDomain=SLIDES
>
>
>
> My thanks to colleagues in FAO and RDA who worked to make this happen and
> build opportunities for future joint research and publications for
> expanding AgriGIS.
>
> We welcome synergies and collaborations from all interested.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
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