Upcoming Webinar: Hands-on demonstration on using Juris-M to create multilingual citations for AGRIS

When: 1 June 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 first webinar, held on 11 May, introduced the Juris-M reference management software. The second webinar will focus on discovering how Juris-M can support the creation of multilingual citations and export metadata in more than one language for submission to AGRIS.

Audience 

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

Format

The invited speaker, Professor Adam H. Lisbon, will demonstrate how to generate multilingual citations and export metadata to AGRIS from Juris-M during this one-hour long webinar. The presentation will be followed by a discussion and Q&A.

We invite the participants to watch the recording and review the presentation of the first webinar on Juris-M, which was held on 11 May.

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 master’s 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, 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/tJUkfuqgrT0rHt0yIZYabb53s3gBH5w4oYGS  

Resources

The presentation used in the webinar held on 11 May is available HERE.

The video recording of the webinar is available HERE.