AIMS

Interviews

Through AIMS Interviews, community members are able to share experiences and collect case studies about implementing methodologies and good practices in managing agricultural research information. This section presents interviews collected from the AIMS Community around the AIMS subject areas. These interviews are organised into the following categories, AIMS User Interviews, Open Access Interviews and Thematic Interviews.

If you want to participate in any of these interviews or have suggestions, we invite you to contact us providing along a brief description of your request.

  • Other

    A further insight into the SIDALC Alliance

    Manuel Hildago is a computer engineer and works for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and has more than 20 years experience in information systems area. He is responsible for the maintainance and development of technical platforms and service support within SIDALC. AIMS Editorial team invited Manuel to share ...
  • experts-on-open-access

    An overview of the CGSpace Repository

    Peter Ballantyne is the head of Communications and Knowledge Management at ILRI. He has been involved with CGSpace from its very beginning. The key individuals involved in running the platform are Abenet Yabowork who manages content for ILRI and supports partners, Sisay Webshet who supports technical developments and Alan Orth ...
  • Other

    An Overview of the Open Knowledge Repository

    José De Buerba is the Senior Publishing Officer and Head of Marketing at The World Bank Group Publications. José manages a team responsible for maximizing the dissemination of Bank publications, administering the Bank’s copyright, ensuring compliance with the Bank’s Open Access policy, and developing and maintaining the Open ...
  • experts-on-open-access

    LA Referencia – South American Open Science network

    With permission from LA Referencia we reproduce the following interview where Michal Starczewski  was asking Alberto Cabezas about the activities of the LA Referencia - South American Open Science Network. On AIMS you will find a webinar on LA Referencia ( in Spanish). The interview below was initially published here.La ...
  • Thematic Interview

    A review of the COAR Interest Group "Controlled Vocabularies for Repository Assets

    Jochen Schirrwagen is research fellow at Bielefeld University Library, Germany. He works for the OpenAIRE2020 project and is responsible for the bibliographic metadata aggregation from data sources like repositories, e-journals and CRIS. He also coordinates the advancement of the OpenAIRE guidelines for data source managers. Accordingly there are number of ...