AIMS

Data and Metadata Working Group Project: the Citizen Science Data and Service Infrastructure

31/03/2016

With the growth of citizen science comes the challenge of coordinating people, projects, and data. But these challenges also present a tremendous opportunity: with proper standardization, data can support multiple projects, allowing citizen science to address ever-grander issues and problems (Data and Metadata in Italy: Reporting from the Citizen Science ...

The Bigness of Big Data: building your infrastructure base for agriculture

29/03/2016

How big data can transform (or improve) agriculture through the adoption of big agri-food data? The first step is to have the proper precision agriculture technologies, such as guidance, variable rate and yield monitoring, in place and have experience with it (Building your infrastructure base).(Source: The Era of Big ...

Legal Interoperability within the Agricultural Domain

24/03/2016

A presentation and discussion about legal interoperability was recently held in FAO within the context of EGI-Engage Project (Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons).This blog summarises briefly the concept of (i) legal interoperability and (ii) presents the AGRIS workflow as an example of an initiative dealing ...

Webinar@AIMS: Research4Life: La bibliothèque qui ouvre ses portes

23/03/2016

La communauté des standards de gestion de l'information agricole (AIMS) en collaboration avec le programme Research4Life, sont heureux de vous annoncer un nouveau webinaire intitulé "Research4Life: La bibliothèque qui ouvre ses portes".Ce webinaire aura lieu en français. Les webinaires en anglais et en espagnol ont ...

Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO) on support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Project

23/03/2016

A common SDG ontology will help match from one SDG goal to the next. The resulting Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology will structure the data to provide a high level of connection between more specialized domain ontologies that will offer cross-reference entities of sustainable development knowledge allowing information to be ...