AIMS

The Sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013

11/03/2013

The 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013 is going to be held in Ghana under the theme "Africa Feeding Africa through Agricultural Science and Innovation" during 15–20 July 2013. This is an event to be organized by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) as a part of three yearly continental gathering ...

How Libraries are Making a Difference Through Research4Life Contest

07/03/2013

Research4Life announces a competition to recognize the role of librarians and library staff in building the capacities of Research4Life users and in impacting the overall work of their institutions. Since 2001, the Research4Life initiative has grown and developed into a partnership of over 200 scientific publishers around the globe, ...

Global CIARD Consultation 2013

06/03/2013

The founders of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) movement are organizing a Global CIARD Consultation to be held in Ethiopia, May 6–9, 2013. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) will host the Consultation on behalf of the partners at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) ...

Publication of ISO 25964-2, the Standard for Interoperability of Thesauri

06/03/2013

ISO 25964-2, the standard for interoperability of thesauri was published by ISO on March 4, 2013.  The full title of Part 2 is ISO 25964-2  Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -- Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies. ISO 25964-2 deals with interoperability between thesauri and other vocabularies, especially the ...

Merge of the AGROVOC and VocBench groups of interest

05/03/2013

We have recently decided to merge the VocBench Group of Interest into the AGROVOC. This was owing to the reality that the two groups overlapped quite closely. In addition, each vocabulary community using VocBench has a specific set of needs and goals with respect to VocBench and such needs are ...