AIMS

Commission welcomes Member States' endorsement of EU Open Data rules

12/04/2013

European Commission, Press Release, Reference: IP/13/316, Brussels, 10 April 2013. "The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe (see IP/11/1524). Once fully implemented into national law, the revision of ...

Keeping the AIMS community updated about the VOA3R Conference collocated together with LINQ 2013

12/04/2013

The 7th VOA3R Project Meeting will take place at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on May, 14t-15t, 2013 in Rome, Italy. Subsequently VOA3R will participate in the LINQ 2013 Conference, the leading conference for Learning Innovations and Quality, which will take ...

Demonstrating the potential of multilingual Web Portals for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education

12/04/2013

Organic.Lingua project has the objective to enhance the existing Organic.Edunet Portal based on educational content on Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE) by introducing automated multi-lingual services that further support the uptake of the portal from its targeted audiences.  The Organic.Edunet portal currently supports sixteen languages, but ...

LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 are now available in HTML

11/04/2013

We are pleased to announce that LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 have been published in HTML. You can now easily browse the recommendations and explore the decision trees and proposed metadata terms and values from the LODE-BD homepage. For those familiar with LODE-BD, the version 2.0 includes the following changes: Metadata terms recommended are ...

Presentations from RDA Launch meeting now available

10/04/2013

The presentations from the RDA launch meeting are now available. I want to point you specifically on two presentations that I found exciting: Manfred D. Laubichler. A Computational Research System for the History of Science and its Connections to Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Theory and Open Data Peter Fox. Can it get ...