AIMS

Empowering Africa’s burgeoning population

10/02/2012

The IFLA Special Interest Group Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA/RAIA) invite proposals for presentations at its Open Session in Helsinki, Finland. Theme Empowering Africa's burgeoning population with access to demographic and development information - the world population explosion and access to the information needed to achieve the ...

Drupal7 and graph related database

10/02/2012

Couple of days ago I found Agridrupal, and it looks very promising a basis for what I hope to achieve: supported by the leading sustainability initiatives (FLO, IFOAM, UTZ, 4C Association, ISEAL, RA) I am preparing a resource center. The resource center should host an online library, forum and yellow ...

OpenAGRIS, agINFRA and AGROVOC presented at "AOS 2011"

09/02/2012

The Joint International Symposium on Natural Language Processing and Agriculture Ontology Service (SNLP-AOS) 2011 is taking place in Bangkok (Thailand) from the 9th–10th of February, 2012. OpenAGRIS, agINFRA and AGROVOC at AOS During the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) workshop the following three presentations were held: "agINFRA, a multilingual infrastructure for information ...

New community home for DSpace and Fedora learning resources

08/02/2012

The DuraSpace organization announced the launch of the KnowledgeBase, a  new community home for DSpace and Fedora online learning resources.Training and educational resources for DSpace and Fedora usersThe dynamic organizational wiki structure of the KnowledgeBase is aimed at creating a comprehensive set of training and educational resources for DSpace ...

1st Meeting of the IODE Steering Group for OceanDocs

07/02/2012

Introduction and background OceanDocs started in 2004 as a project in the framework of OdinAfrica. In 2007 the OdinPubAfrica repository became OceanDocs, a repository for the IODE-related communities. Also some of the IODE partners were interested in setting-up their own repository. OceanDocs is now the repository network of UNESCO/IOC-IODE. The OceanDocs ...