AIMS

New Webinar@AIMS: "Automatic Indexing of Bibliographic Metadata: The AgroTagger Usecase"

10/03/2014

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Automatic Indexing of Bibliographic Metadata: The AgroTagger Usecase” The webinar will present the keyword extractor AgroTagger. AgroTagger is a tool based on MAUI that uses the AGROVOC thesaurus as its set of allowable keywords. It can read the fulltext of publications ...

OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS managers available for public review

07/03/2014

OpenAIRE has issued interoperability guidelines in the frameowrk of Research Information Systems (CRIs) based on CERIF-XML, specifically targeted to the harvesting of CRIS Systems by the central OpenAIRE infrastructure. At a technical level, OpenAIRE relies heavily on the uptake of its ‘guidelines’ whereby data providers implement a set of common ...

First ODINWESTPAC planning meeting concludes in Tianjin, China

07/03/2014

The first planning workshop for the Ocean Data and Information Network for the WESTPAC region (ODINWESTPAC) was held in Tianjin, China between 4 and 6 March 2014. Co-sponsored by the Government of China (NMDIS), the meeting was attended by 21 participants from 9 WESTPAC Member States. Meeting highlights The meeting discussed the current status of ...

Organic.Lingua Workshop: Best Practices and Tools for multilingual online services

06/03/2014

The Organic.Lingua project is organizing an online workshop titled "Best Practices and Tools for multilingual online services". The Workshop will take place on Thursday, March 27, 2014, between 15.00 and 17.00 (CET). You can find more information here.   For the online workshop, the Google Hangouts platform will be used. The link to the ...

Partnership for Open Data : Impact Stories Competition.

05/03/2014

The Open Knowledge Foundation announced the following Impact Stories Competition as originally seen here. Interested institutions within the Agricultural Communities are encouraged to apply. ANNOUNCEMENT How has Open Data impacted you and your community? Over the last decade, Open Data initiatives have become increasingly popular with both governments and civil ...