AIMS

AGROVOC Web Services will be temporarily unavailable

21/03/2012

Friday, 23rd March 2012 @ 15:00 hours for a 24 hour period   Our research partner MIMOS who provides the infrastructure hosting our Linked Data services will conduct a replacement of a core hardware switch in their Data Center this Friday. This extraordinary event requires that all vocabulary services be unavailable, including:  Web services & VocBench (...

AGRIS Minutes 2012/03/20

21/03/2012

Outcome: Though there are many other ongoing activities that were discussed, the priority items for the following 2 weeks were: 1. DFID ingestion by the end of March, regardless of whether we have improved data. A. Fabrizio will start 26th.   2. OR2012 one page proposal A. Yves will write down proposal by 23rd ...

Knowledge Sharing : The CGIAR OA case studies

20/03/2012

In a recent publication entitled  Agricultural Research[1] , OA initiatives case studies at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are  presented. CGIAR prioritizes the communication of agricultural research results and incorporates the research workflows to the agricultural research. Therefore, the Triple-A framework (Availability, Accessibility and Applicability) was adopted as ...

Main navigation menu - A proposal

19/03/2012

Dear all, As we announced last week, the next step is to bring into the discussion the AIMS main navigation menu. You will find the proposed menu down below, which is slightly different to what was available in the last mock-up. It includes three levels: the first and the second ...

VEST Registry enriched

19/03/2012

The Vocabularies, mEtadata Sets and Tools (VEST) Registry for agricultural information management has been enriched with the following four resources: Tools Evergreen, an open source integrated library system. Pubby, an RDF server that adds a Linked Data interface to existing SPARQL-capable triple stores. VIVO, an open source semantic web application. ...