AIMS

Implementation of a knowledge management platform for Agroecology in Ecuador

06/11/2013

From April to June 2013, the AIMS team received the visit of Juan José Lugo Bernal, student from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain), as a part of the ERASMUS Student Mobility for Placements. During his stay in Rome, Juan José finalized the publication"Desarrollo de una plataforma para la gestió...

4th iMarine Board Meeting highlight: Presentation on application bundles

06/11/2013

The 4th iMarine Board Meeting took place in October, 16-18, 2013 at the FAO headquarters (Italy). The presentation "iMarine products and services delivery" held by Pasquale Pagano, iMarine Technical Director, is now online available. iMarine application bundles The presentation focuses on the four iMarine application Bundles listed down below, showing some ...

Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information

05/11/2013

Cousera's Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information has  just wound up but if you are interested add this excellent course to your watch list for future sessions. The course, provided by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is eight weeks long and requires about 3-4 hours of study each ...

FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2

05/11/2013

The FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors Version 2 (MCPD V.2) is an international standard, issued in 2012, to facilitate germplasm passport information exchange. It provides the descriptors necessary to describe crop species and create passports. This second version is the result of a thorough revision of the widely used publication "FAO/IPGRI ...

New Webinar@AIMS: "Recommandations pour la gestion de l'information en agriculture: présentation de la plate-forme AIMS"

04/11/2013

L'équipe de rédaction de AIMS est heureuse d’annoncer la tenue du webinaire “Recommendations pour la gestion de l'information en agriculture: Introduction à la plateforme AIMS et son potentiel pour les gestionnaires de l'information”. La session aura lieu le 8 november 2013 à 16 heures (heure de Rome) – et sera présentée ...