AIMS

VocBench and related services to AGROVOC & AGRIS LOD will be temporarily unavailable

22/11/2013

From midnight Friday/Saterday until Saturday at noon (Rome Time), November 23, the following services will be temporarily unavailable: VocBench MySQL (related to VocBench) Allegrograph (AGROVOC LOD, AGRIS LOD) Our research partner MIMOS who provides the infrastructure hosting our Linked Data services will conduct a technical intervention to upgrade hardware resources, ...

Join e-Agriculture next week at the WSIS+10 forum

21/11/2013

Join e-Agriculture at the "WSIS+10 forum", from 25 November through 6 December, and share your thoughts about improving agricultural and rural development with ICT. This upcoming Monday the forum will open with the question: What are the main achievements in the area of ICT for agriculture and rural development in the past ...

New Interactive Global Weather Resources Available Through aWhere Inc.'s Open Platform

21/11/2013

As climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers throughout the developing world, aWhere, Inc. announces the inclusion of new global weather resources to help address food security and adaptation to climate change.  The aWhere Platform now offers free access to satellite derived precipitation data and localized weather ...

The Berlin Open Access Conference kickstarts

19/11/2013

The Berlin Open Access Conference roared into life today, and this particular edition is significant in two fronts. Firstly, the conference is held on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration, and secondly, it was in Berlin where the 'Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in ...

Meeting of TaCCIRe and AIMS on the use and integration of controlled vocabularies (AGROVOC) in DSpace Repositories

19/11/2013

On the 15th of November the AIMS editorial team met the consortium of the Tanzanian Climate Change Information Repository (TaCCIRe) project in order to give support and recommendations on the use and integration of vocabularies in digital repositories. The TaCCIRe is a digital online collection that gives visibility to the ...