AIMS

MTSR Conference Programme now available

07/08/2015

The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September 2015. The MTSR conferences aim to bring together scholars and practitioners that share a common interest in the interdisciplinary field ...

Control the way you receive news and notifications from AIMS

05/08/2015

The AIMS Editorial team would like to notify all AIMS users that  they can now control e-mail alerts coming from AIMS. All users have an opportunity to pre-select the subjects of alerts they receive from AIMS by subscribing to topic (s) they want to receive. In order to do so, ...

Presenting usages of KOS in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference"

04/08/2015

The FAO AIMS team presented usages and the power of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference" that took place on the 13th and 14th of July 2015 in London.The ISKO conference illustrated the continuing demand for knowledge organization (KO). It aimed ...

Contributing bibliographic information to AGRIS

04/08/2015

Earlier this year, the AGRIS Data Processing unit announced the New AGRIS Online Service Desk running on Agro-Know Stem service. This service is meant to streamline the submission of data to AGRIS and also to improve interaction between the AGRIS Data Providers and the processing unit. One of the 4 options ...

COAR Launches Draft “Resource Type” Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories

03/08/2015

Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for describing repository items, such as open access status, research funder, institutional affiliation, and so on. Given the truly ...