AIMS

Open AGRIgate Competition : agINFRA Open Data Campaign

15/09/2014

agINFRA is doing our part to assist in the global movement for Open Agricultural Data by launching a new kind of competition for anyone with agricultural data.The Open AGRIgate competition is simple: Use agINFRA’s tools to open as much data as possible via the FAO’s CIARD RING....

Call for Participants for the Webinar@AIMS : "Crawling and tagging the Web"

15/09/2014

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Crawling and tagging the Web”About the webinarThe webinar will present the SemaGrow demonstrator “Web Crawler + AgroTagger”, in order to collect feedback, ideas and comments about the status of the development and how the demonstrator helps to overcome data problems.  SemaGrow ...

New Webinar@AIMS : "Announcing the new AGRIS Partnership"

11/09/2014

Since beginning of 2014, FAO established a strong partnership with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Agricultural Information Institute and the Ariadne Foundation, Agro-Know  to produce and enhance AGRIS, the International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology.The first milestone was achieved with the transfer of the AGRIS data ...

What is ORCID? on Vimeo

10/09/2014

A new video has been posted on Vimeo explaining ORCID. Synopsis Names are not enough to ensure credit for your work and are inadequate for reliably connecting researchers with their research outputs. Learn how the ORCID identifier can ensure that your publications, datasets, and other research outputs are connected with ...

AIMS is under maintenance and will be back soon!

08/09/2014

We are busy migrating the current AIMS platform to a new one. During this period AIMS would not be updated - with very minimal posts and maintenance. We will be back online on Friday the 19th of September 2014. We apologise for any inconvenience during this period and we appreciate your ...