AIMS

“Open Data in support of food security and agricultural development” Side-event for 148th Session of FAO Council

27/11/2013

Side-event for 148th Session of FAO Council The side-event will provide a forum for discussion on the nature and value of Open Data in support of agricultural development and food security, which has received much attention in international arenas such as the work on the Post-2015 development goals. Open Data ...

DSpace webinar presentation held by EIFL FOSS and OA Webinar

26/11/2013

Are you interested in knowing the general aspects of DSpace repository what it can do?, what files can be managed by DSpace? How it is used in different environments and installations? Then you should listen the DSpace webinar delivered by Bram Luyten from atmire, and organised by EIFL FOSS. The ...

Problematic mappings in AGROVOC Linked Open Data

26/11/2013

I found that AGROVOC is making an effort to align concepts in different vocabularies via Linked Open Data using SKOS mapping properties: http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/linked-open-data. And I found the mapping files are published at: http://datahub.io/dataset/agrovoc-skos I have been working on semantic web, ...

Discover AGRIS 2.0! New Webinar@AIMS: "Release of AGRIS 2.0: Searching agricultural bibliographic data"

26/11/2013

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Release of AGRIS 2.0: Searching agricultural bibliografic data in an interlinked environment“ The objective of this webinar is to give an introduction to the new AGRIS website (that will be released on the 2nd of December 2013) and its functions. The new website ...

FAO Country Profiles launches a new website

26/11/2013

FAO Country Profiles launched a newly redesigned website that matches closely FAO corporate design. The new website comes after a user survey which sought to establish user expectations and information needs from the FAO Country profiles.The newly designed home page has a news section that gives information and news ...