AIMS

AIMS participates in LOD2014 - Linked Open Data: where are we?

21/02/2014

This year's International Open Data Day is on Saturday the 22nd of February, and is a day celebrated by individuals, organisations and governments interested in the Open Data .The AIMS team supports Open Data activities within agriculture and joined the W3C Italy in celebrating the LOD2014 -Linked Open Data: ...

Open Repositories 2014 Scholarship Programme

21/02/2014

[Original Announcement at here] "The Open Repositories Steering Committee is delighted to announce that for OR2014 we will be running a pilot Scholarship Programme. This programme will enable us to provide support for a small number of full registered places for this year’s conference in Helsinki. The programme is ...

UNESCO publishes guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software

19/02/2014

UNESCO has published guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software as part of its Open Access Strategy. The software under comparison are Digital Commons,DSpace,Eprints, Fedora and Islandora. Since 2000, a number of repository platforms have been developed, each with their own set of benefits and technical criteria.This guide will ...

Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data

18/02/2014

Lately, efforts to make agricultural data, information and knowledge more accessible have increased. A recent article entitled ‘Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data’ published in the D-Lib Magazine enumerates developments in 'Opening data in Agriculture' within the context of Research Data Alliance. The tripartite authored article (with authors from , INRA [...

ARL Attendance Grant applications for IFLA Congress Lyon 2014

17/02/2014

Original post at: http://www.ifla.org/node/8394   The Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL), with generous sponsorship by ExLibris and Sage, is offering THREE (3) Attendance Grants for the IFLA Congress in Lyon 2014 to an information professional from each of these regions: Africa Latin America Asia/Pacific region Each grant ...