AIMS

Webinars@AIMS: From Print to Electronic: Using the Open Journal System to Publish an E-journal

19/06/2014

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “From Print to Electronic: Using the Open Journal System (OJS) to Publish an E-Journal". The webinar will present the Open Journal System (OJS), developed as part of the Open Knowledge Project, which is an open source software freely available that promotes ...

Free LOD2 Webinar : SIREn

18/06/2014

The LOD2 project will offer a free one-hour webinar on SIRen, a plug in to Solr and Elastic search. The webinar will give a brief overview of the SIREn project and give a presentation of the tool and it's capabilities. Details Presenter : Giovanni Tummarello Date        : June 24 2014 Time        : 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ...

Webinar on " CASRAI: a non-profit initiative to harmonize research information and facilitate interoperability"

17/06/2014

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Interest Group Controlled Vocabularies for Repository Assets where the AIMS Team is participating in will hold its first Webinar on July 7, 2014. For all of you interested in the field of standardization of research information, the Webinar will be open to COAR members, as ...

3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World Hunger Day

12/06/2014

The following is a press released by GigaScience Journal and we share it with AIMS members verbatim, the original release can be read here. Key Highlights  The GigaScience Journal publishes an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable ...

Meeting of the GACS working group and Steering Group

11/06/2014

Since January 2014  CABI, Wallingford, the National Agricultural Library of the USA and FAO are working together in a project with the final goal to align their 3 thesauri and to form the  core of a  Global Agricultural Concept Scheme  (GACS). A working group with representives from the 3 organizations was formed and ...