AIMS

Be among the first ones that will get a free micro-site for their journals!

23/07/2015

A very hot August is almost round the corner, but Agro-Know is in full throttle working on the next release of our AKstem.com product. Our team is working on a service that will automatically set up a customised micro-site for institutions that make their bibliography available through AKstem to ...

AGROVOC improves the discoverability of "Good Practices" in the FAO Document Repository

23/07/2015

Early this year, "good practices" was added as a new term to AGROVOC. As the newest AGROVOC version was imported to the FAO Document Repository backend, records can now be tagged with “good practices” as one of the multilingual AGROVOC terms in the DocRep backend when uploading materials. Adding relevant ...

Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) Pre-Meeting

21/07/2015

The Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) prepares a pre-meeting on the 21st and 22nd of September 2015 in Paris to discuss current challenges of research data management and reflect about possible linkages with other interest and working groups in RDA. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global initiative reaching out ...

Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies e-forum – 7-18 September 2015

21/07/2015

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations are organising an e-forum on “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies” which will take place from 7-18 ...

"Improving Semantics in Agriculture" Workshop - Material Online!

17/07/2015

On the 2nd and 3rd of July 2015 the "Improving Semantics in Agriculture" Workshop took place in the FAO Head Quarter in Rome, Italy. The workshop was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 38 international experts participated in the workshop.The goal of this workshop was to draw a roadmap for ...