AIMS

New social media network for Fedora/DSpace

20/11/2009

I just became aware of a fairly new social network for Duraspace, the parent organization of the Fedora, DSpace, and Mulgara projects.  They're using a Crowdvine site at:  http://duraspace.crowdvine.com/ Looking over the list of current active members it looks like all the major players in DSPace and ...

Improved coverage of rural poverty and environmental issues through collaboration with IFAD and WRI

13/11/2009

  The FAO Country Profiles expands its coverage providing direct access to partner organizations country profiles in the areas of agriculture, natural resources and fight against hunger and rural poverty. The Rural Poverty Country Profiles, produced by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), are now available in the General Information, ...

India Towards the Open Access

09/11/2009

India Towards the Open Access: A New Institutional Repository at Indian Agricultural Research  Institute  "Eprints@IARI is the open access research outputs repository of Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Research outputs of IARI - journal papers, conference papers, reports, theses, patents etc. - are uploaded/self-archived by IARI scientists/scholars who ...

ICUDL 2009, Pittsburgh

07/11/2009

I am in Pittsburgh, USA to participate in ICUDL - The 5th International Conference on Universal Digital Library. The presentation that I will give in the paper session of the conference is at Presentation

Presentations about CIARD

07/11/2009

From October 17 to 29 I was  on a trip to China and Malaysia  visiting various Chinese Institutions and MIMOS the technology arm of the Malaysian ministry of Technology. The report of this trip is at Trip China/Malaysia I gave a presentation on AIMS and CIARD at the Chinese Agricultural Ontology ...