When: 11 May 2022 at 14:00 CEST

 

Background

Coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 1974, the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) is one of the most comprehensive databases for food and agricultural scientific literature worldwide. Millions of bibliographic records are available in more than 90 languages for free to global users. This is possible through the work of an international network of data providers, including publishers, academia, governments and civil society organizations, who volunteer information (metadata) about scientific publications.

Currently, there is a lack of free tools that support the creation and management of records describing multilingual resources. Juris-M is an exception: a free tool, based on the popular open-source Zotero reference manager, that supports managing bibliographic records in multiple languages and multilingual citations.

Goal

The goal of the webinar is to introduce current and potential AGRIS data providers to the use of Juris-M reference manager software for metadata creation of multilingual resources in AGRIS.



Multilingualism, as a consequence of AGRIS’s global reach and international nature, is a fundamental feature of AGRIS and an endorsement of the need for diversity in languages used in scholarly communication.

Audience 

The webinar will bring together current AGRIS data providers and organizations interested in joining the AGRIS network.

Format

The participants in the 1-hour event on Zoom will be guided through:

• A brief introduction to AGRIS by the AGRIS Programme Manager.
• A presentation on how to set up, use and generate citations using Juris-M by the invited speaker, Professor Adam H. Lisbon.
• A last session for discussion and Q&A.

About the speaker

Professor Adam H. Lisbon is an expert on Juris-M from the University Libraries of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a masters from the University at Albany and is the Japanese and Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on automation and workflow analysis to improve non-English language collection development.

About the organization 

FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger, recognizes that to defeat hunger and simultaneously achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Access to scientific knowledge, research and information about food and agriculture is crucial for the sustainable transformation of food systems that will underpin the defeat of hunger. AGRIS plays a vital role in promoting free and global access to this knowledge, research and information.

 

Fee and registration process

Participation in the event is free of charge and requires registration at the following link:

https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuceCqqTksHdX16lzqjCaaB4jdvFO74nGG