From the U of I Library: A gift from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumna, M. Christine Wicklein Schwartz, through the T & C Schwartz Family Foundation, has made it possible to digitize issues of Farmer’s Weekly Review (Joliet, IL) from 1929 to 2010. This collection of historic agricultural newspapers is now accessible through Farm, […]
University of Illinois Library: Addition of Historic Agriculture Newspaper to Ag Digital Repository
Filed by on June 1, 2012
Agriculture: FAO Data Published as Linked Open Data
Filed by on November 15, 2011
From the FAO Data Blog: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), like many other large data producers (BBC, the Library of Congress, the US government, just to name just a few), has started publicizing its data as Linked Open Data. For example, the very first data set published by FAO was the […]
New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture Launches Database of More Than 2000 Vintage Photographs
Filed by on June 21, 2011
From NJ.com: An online data – and image bank describing more than 7,000 vintage photographs produced by the Department of Agriculture to document farming in New Jersey from the late 19th century through the 1970s has been created. Of these, more than 2,000 photos have been scanned and are now publicly viewable in the image […]
