AIMS

A button for Open Access: an innovative new tool to help enable access to denied research

29/11/2013

On November 18th in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with this year’s Berlin 11 Open Access meeting, the Max Planck Society and Right to Research Coalition hosted the first-ever satellite conference to the Berlin conference series specifically for students and early stage researchers. The Berlin11 falls in occasion  of the ten  ...

Digital agriculture information management in ECOWAS countries

29/11/2013

I recently organized a seminar on Agricultural Information Management and Knowledge Exchange in ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) countries in Akosombo, a small town in the east of Ghana in the Eastern Region and the site of the Akosombo Dam. I invited senior officers responsible for information management ...

“Open Data in support of food security and agricultural development” Side-event for 148th Session of FAO Council

27/11/2013

Side-event for 148th Session of FAO Council The side-event will provide a forum for discussion on the nature and value of Open Data in support of agricultural development and food security, which has received much attention in international arenas such as the work on the Post-2015 development goals. Open Data ...

DSpace webinar presentation held by EIFL FOSS and OA Webinar

26/11/2013

Are you interested in knowing the general aspects of DSpace repository what it can do?, what files can be managed by DSpace? How it is used in different environments and installations? Then you should listen the DSpace webinar delivered by Bram Luyten from atmire, and organised by EIFL FOSS. The ...

Problematic mappings in AGROVOC Linked Open Data

26/11/2013

I found that AGROVOC is making an effort to align concepts in different vocabularies via Linked Open Data using SKOS mapping properties: http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/linked-open-data. And I found the mapping files are published at: http://datahub.io/dataset/agrovoc-skos I have been working on semantic web, ...