AIMS

Report of the AIMS User Impact Survey

24/03/2015

IntroductionThe AIMS team initiated the AIMS User Impact Survey towards the end of last year. The survey sought to gather feedback from AIMS users’ on theAIMS platform,AIMS products and services, andThe impact of AIMS’ products and services on users.The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) new website was launched ...

AGRIS: providing access to agricultural research data exploiting open data on the web

21/08/2015

The heading of this blog is the title of a recent paper from AGRIS team published under the F1000Research. The paper reviews the latest development of the AGRIS database and focuses also on the needs of the community. AGRIS is a global public good and its vision is to ...

agINFRA EC project successfully concluded and... continuing

16/06/2015

The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed.agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability.agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and ...

The GODAN Discussion Paper is publicly available

29/05/2015

The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative has published a Discussion Paper titled "How can we improve agriculture, food and nutrition with open data?"The Discussion Paper provides basic information on open data and the impact that open data have in different contexts, such as enabling more ...

CIARD e-Consultation 2015 open!

30/03/2015

CIARD announced an e-Consultation entitled CIARD e-Consulation 2015 :Consideration for future direction which opens from the 30th to the 15th of April 2015 . The consultation is open to CIARD members where they seek to discuss the further development of CIARD. While the output will shape the future of CIARD, the results however , ...

agINFRA open access recommendations for agri-food research community

20/03/2015

The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative, introduces a set of recommendations applying to agri-food research community for data management, sharing and dissemination. Additionally, these recommendations aim to provide a ...

OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices

17/03/2015

The D-Lib Magazine March/April 2014 published an article surveying metadata use in OpenDOAR repositories.Brief ReviewThe creation of metadata for research and repository content is an essential part of the scholarly communication process and is necessary for the long-term access and preservation of our digital (and digitized) heritage. In spring 2014, ...

New vacancy: Director of GODAN Secretariat

13/03/2015

GODAN is an initiative that seeks to support global efforts to make data relevant to agriculture and nutrition available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.The GODAN Secretariat will drive and deliver a range of key activities that uncovers what great work is going on today in the field ...