AIMS

Webinar@AIMS: How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing LOD-enabled bibliographic data (31st July 2013)

23/07/2013

The AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is pleased to announce the webinar How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographic data.  This event is part of the series of webinars Linked Open Data @ AIMS that started in December 2012. The objective of Linked Open Data @ ...

Heritage vocabularies from EH, RCAHMS, RCAHMW available as Linked Open Data

22/07/2013

English Heritage (EH), the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW), the Archaeology Data Service and the University of South Wales are pleased to announce that cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies are now freely available ...

AgriVIVO is growing: new AIMS members and new data from CABI

18/07/2013

New AIMS members in AgriVIVO Some time ago we introduced AgriVIVO to the AIMS community. AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities. We are very glad that in the last month 21 new people ...

GFAR: Enabling Open Access to Agricultural Data and Information

15/07/2013

Global Forum on Agricultural Research's (GFAR) commitment to open access to agricultural research data and information has been captured in a recent news item.GFAR has been contributing to advocacy and promotion of openness to agricultural research outputs and has also been enabling open access to agricultural research data and ...

Openness and Visibility

11/07/2013

A recent article entitled 'Openness and Visibility' authored by Stephen Rudgard has been published in the ICT Update bulletin. The article retraces the concepts of open access and further defines 'openness' to information and knowledge in the agricultural domain. Regarding visibility, the paper says 'the use of international standards for ...