AIMS

Contributing bibliographic information to AGRIS

04/08/2015

Earlier this year, the AGRIS Data Processing unit announced the New AGRIS Online Service Desk running on Agro-Know Stem service. This service is meant to streamline the submission of data to AGRIS and also to improve interaction between the AGRIS Data Providers and the processing unit. One of the 4 options ...

COAR Launches Draft “Resource Type” Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories

03/08/2015

Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for describing repository items, such as open access status, research funder, institutional affiliation, and so on. Given the truly ...

BlueBRIDGE will create open data services for the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

30/07/2015

FAO, in a consortium of 14 partners, plans to start BlueBRIDGE with support from EU H2020 to develop data services for fisheries and environmental and spatial management.  BlueBRIDGE capitalizes on past investments and uses the proven iMarine e-Infrastructure; this has 1500+ users, integrates +50 repositories, executes +13,000 models & algorithms/month; provides access to over ...

Meaningful combinations between two or more databases: The SemaGrow Stack is tested by the FAO AGRIS team

29/07/2015

The FAO AGRIS team is testing one of the main outcomes of the SemaGrow project, the SemaGrow Stack, with the objective to use this technology for the provision of meaningful information for AGRIS mash-up pages.The SemaGrow Stack implements a SPARQL endpoint that federates many other SPARQL endpoints and optimizes ...

Research4Life Training: An overview of the past year

29/07/2015

To make the best use of the Research4Life resources, training is one of the key and most important activities that our partners and programmes are committed to offer to our users. During the year thousands of librarians and researchers make use of our training material around the globe.Research4...