AIMS

International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability

04/12/2013

The “International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability” will take place between December 6th and December 20th, 2013. The aim of this e-Conference is to bring in contact stakeholders in the area of plant germplasm and traits and discuss the current status of the interoperability between the different data sources and resources, ...

The ORBi Experience: University of Liege repository

03/12/2013

The Open Repository and Bibliography (ORBi) repository is celebrated as one of the successful models of Open Access green route where policy frameworks coupled with other institutional support structures are essential to the increase of article deposits. The decision to build an institutional repository at the University of Liège ...

AGRIS 2.0 released!

02/12/2013

The AGRIS team is happy to announce the release of AGRIS 2.0! A merge between the AGRIS system and OpenAGRIS, featuring a new look and feel. The new AGRIS is a mash-up web application that links the bibliographic AGRIS knowledge to related  resources on the Web using the Linked Open Data ...

iMarine develops top-level ontology for the marine domain

02/12/2013

“How can users experience iMarine as one coherent source of facts about marine entities, rather than a bag of contributed contents?” (*) In answer to this question, the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH-ICS developed − for the iMarine project − a top-level ontology for the marine domain. Access the latest version: MarineTLO – ...

Agricultural information & documentation centres in sub-Saharan Africa : A survey

02/12/2013

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD Africa Chapter), is conducting a survey of agricultural information centres, libraries and documentation centre in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...