The Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS), version Beta 3.1, was released in May 2016. One of the known weaknesses of GACS in its current form is the concept hierarchy (BT/NT relationships)....
I am helping FAO, CAB International, and the National Agricultural Library (USDA) integrate their three thesauri -- AGROVOC, CAB Thesaurus, and NAL Thesaurus -- into a new Global Agricultural...
Last Wednesday, October 28, I presented 'Global Agricultural Concept Scheme: The collaborative integration of three thesauri' at the annual conference of the German Coalition for Networked...
AIMS community members may be interested in this current vacancy at CABI. If you wish to apply, please send your application to recruitment@cabi.org. Please note the closing date for receipt of...
As announced by MTRS 2015Important DatesMay 19th 2015 : Paper Submission DeadlineJune 16th 2015: Acceptance/Rejection NotificationJune 30th 2015: Camera-ready papers dueSeptember 9th -11th 2015:...
The first beta of GACS, the Global Agricultural Concept Scheme, is out!See: http://tester-os-kktest.lib.helsinki.fi/gacsdemo/gacs/en/GACS explored the possibility of creating a global repository of...
The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “CKAN as an open-source data management solution for open data". This webinar will represent The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive...
AIMS community could find the Special Bulletin of the ASIS&T Bulletin April/May 2-15 on "Linked Data and the Charm of Weak Semantics" a good read .The Bulletin of the Association for...
Do you use AGROVOC? Have you used it in the past? If so, please answer a few questions to help us improve it. It will only take you a few minutes!Here is the survey: http://goo.gl/forms...
ORCID has recently announced that it received $3 Million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption...