AIMS

ICT and producer organizations - online forum 12 to 23 November

08/11/2012

Producer organizations play an important role in tackling the systemic causes of poverty, because they give farmers—men and women—a legitimate voice in shaping pro-poor rural policies.  Producer organizations can function more efficiently by using information communication technologies (ICT) to attract and retain a wider membership, generate more funds, ...

COAR report "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)"

07/11/2012

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published the report "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)".   Overview of Open Access Repository Interoperability Landscape "The report provides an overview of the current interoperability landscape in terms of the types of services that are now possible because of recent research ...

On CIARD session at GCARD2, Uruguay

07/11/2012

With the endorsement at GCARD2010, CIARD now had became a global movement said Mr. Krishnan Bheenick , Senior Programme Coordinator, Knowledge Management, CTA  one of the panelist at the CIARD session on “Access, sharing and transformation of agricultural data and information”.   During the session in opening remarks as Chair, Ms. Enrica ...

New agInfra 'Italian Soil Information System' application demo now available

06/11/2012

The WebGIS and Cloud Computing enabled 'Italian Soil Information System' (ISIS) service is running for online Italian soil data consultation. ISIS is made up of a hierarchy of geo-databases which include soil regions and aim at correlating the soils of Italy with those of other European countries with respect to ...

Programme MTSR 2012 available

06/11/2012

The 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) will take place this year at the University of Cádiz in Spain, 28-30 November 2012. The overall programme has now been published on the MTSR 2012 website. A detailed schedule is also available at lanyrd. Special tracks The programme includes special tracks focusing ...