AIMS

Follow the RAILS-CIARD Africa Consultation live and on Twitter

19/06/2012

Today the Regional Expert Consultation on Opening Access to Agricultural Information in Africa started. The consultation takes place in Accra, Ghana from 19-21 June, 2012 and is jointly organized by the Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), The Global Forum on Agricultural research (GFAR) and FAO. Follow the RAILS-CIARD Africa ...

GFRAS has joined the CIARD Movement

19/06/2012

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) has recently joined CIARD. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) is a partnership-based initiative to disseminate agricultural research data more efficiently and make it publicly available and accessible to all. GFRAS provides advocacy and leadership on pluralistic, demand-driven ...

The agINFRA Science Gateway is online

18/06/2012

The agINFRA Science Gateway, developed by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in the context of the EU funded agINFRA project, has been released online at http://aginfra-sg.ct.infn.it/ and has been registered as an official Service Provider for both the Chinese CARSI and the Spanish SIR ...

Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood

15/06/2012

On June 13 and 14, during the International Smartagrimatics Conference a workshop on "Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood". The AIMs team (Johannes Keizer) gave a presentation with the title "Creating Knowledge Bases by annotating large amounts of unstructured data using RDF triples and the AGROVOC concept scheme - the agHARVEST project" . ...

Challenges of Open Access to Knowledge: The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Library Experience

14/06/2012

In the May issue of the online journal "Library Philosophy and Practice" an article about the state of open access at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU) in Nigeria and the challenges confronting its managers was published: Chimezie Patrick Uzuegbu and Faustinus U. McAlbert, "Digital Librarians and the Challenges ...