AIMS

using other controlled vocabularies

09/03/2012

Within our (upcoming) initiative we aim to offer business development service providers a one-stop-shop for training material and background info on sustainable standards.   AgroVoc is an excellent starter for use for the agricultural tagging. However, we are working from different angles. Quality Management (ISO 9000) and training slang will play an ...

The Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) - Cyprus

09/03/2012

The library “Theodosis Christou” of the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) is a public library established in 1962.  The library visitors’ can use it to study and take advantage of its services: to search and find printed and digital material - books, journals, magazines - all related with agricultural information from Cyprus ...

AGRIS database enriched with full text articles from DOAJ

07/03/2012

The AGRIS database has recently enriched its collection of full text articles from scholarly journals on agriculture with the Agriculture and Food Science set of data from DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals):  18,864 citations with full text from 102 new journals. Keeping pace with the OA movement By providing access to ...

Symposium on Agricultural Ontology Service 2012

07/03/2012

Ontologies and semantic technologies for agricultural knowledge in practice The series of AOS workshops started in 2000, with the aim to start a discussion on how to use semantically-oriented technologies in general and ontologies in particular, to provide effective agricultural knowledge services and collaboration around the world. Standards, tools and services ...

AGRIS and VOA3R collaborate

05/03/2012

The AGRIS initiative of FAO is collaborating with VOA3R, an European Union project. Benefits of collaboration AGRIS benefits from VOA3R’s integrated open access services and academic orientation, to enlarge AGRIS’ network with new research institutions and quality content. VOA3R gains the support and sustainability that affiliation ...