AIMS

Conference on Open Data in Agriculture

04/11/2013

The ‘Open Data in Agriculture: Status and Prospects’ conference to be held on the 12th of November in Paris, France is organised by the French Association of IT in Agriculture (President Jean-Pierre Chanet, Irstea) and Joint Technological Network (RMT) Modelia.org, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Ministry ...

National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI and FAO agree on collaboration in the development of their thesauri

01/11/2013

In recent meetings representatives of the National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI International and FAO have talked about a strong collaboration in the further development of their thesauri.  Goal of this collaboration is to develop a global agricultural concept scheme to concentrate and streamline the efforts of the 3 organizations ...

Agricultural Research Organizations meet to discuss Horizon2020 opportunities

01/11/2013

Wednesday 31 and Thursday 31 more than  20 representatives from European and International Agricultural Research Organizations met to discuss opportunities offered by the new Horizon2020 program of the  European Commission. In the first part of the meeting ongoing projects were presented. It emerged clearly from most of the presentations that there is an ...

Recommended! "Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation" Webinar

29/10/2013

On October 15 the second webinar in the DuraSpace Webinar Series: Research Data in Repositories was held.  Declan Fleming - Chief Technology Strategist-, Arwen Hutt - Metadata Librarian-, and Matt Critchlow - Manager of Development and Web Services from UC - San Diego Library presented, “Metadata and Repository Services for Research ...

AGROVOC and Arabterm

29/10/2013

Arabterm.org is an initiative of ALECSO and supported by GIZ, to provide a standardized technical terminology in Arabic. Arabterm.org is organized per industry sector. Currently 2 volumes are available online (Water technologies & Automotive engineering) and some 14 more are planned. The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and ...