Curating social science research to support Covid-19 response

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis requiring rapid generation of policy-relevant evidence to inform decision-making as we move from crisis to recovery phase and beyond. We’re working with the Covid Collective to curate and share social science research evidence on Covid-19 via the IDS KS API. The Covid Collective is a global partnership of… Continue reading Curating social science research to support Covid-19 response

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Research to Impact Hackathon: Agriculture & Nutrition – 22-25 January 2013 – iHub, Nairobi

        Linking information and data, and taking it to where it is needed Every year institutions, researchers and practitioners generate thousands of datasets, reports and articles about development issues. Yet, much of this knowledge remains underused , locked away in silos. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS), and Research for Development (R4D)… Continue reading Research to Impact Hackathon: Agriculture & Nutrition – 22-25 January 2013 – iHub, Nairobi

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Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application

As part of the call for proposals for grants for small technical projects, IDS KS funded developers, Gebre Wallace, Matthew McNaughton and Jonathon Smith of the Caribbean Open Institute (COI), which is housed Mona School Of Business, University Of The West Indies, Jamaica, to develop a tablet application Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA). The Agriculture… Continue reading Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application

Linked data wrapper developed for the IDS KS API extended to include IATI API

The latest Development Data Challenge was held in Helsinki, Finland, as part of the Open Development topic stream at Open Knowledge Festival. The challenge aimed to use data to answer a number of development questions. Victor de Boer and Christophe Gueret attended and used the challenge to extend their Linked Data wrapper, that they had designed for the IDS KS… Continue reading Linked data wrapper developed for the IDS KS API extended to include IATI API

Linked Data

Recently the IDS Knowledge Services offered a grant to Christophe Guéret and  Victor de Boer from VU University Amsterdam to investigate exposing the IDS Knowledge Services data as RDF and to build some client applications making use of the enriched data. Their aim was to use the API as it is and created 5-star Linked Data by linking the created… Continue reading Linked Data

Locwise – a spatial and concept filtering search application

As part of the call for proposals for grants for small technical projects, IDS KS funded developers, Arun Ramanujapuram and Vani S Hemmige, based in India, to develop Locwise – a spatial and semantic refiner of search results. Built using content from the IDS KS API, LocWise enables users to quickly find locale-specific research by… Continue reading Locwise – a spatial and concept filtering search application