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The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP)

30/10/2012

TAP facilitates more effective and streamlined capacity development interventions in innovation systems in tropical agriculture. TAP was created to focus specifically on capacity development in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), more than 90% of which are located at least partly within the Tropics. TAP provides a mechanism for all actors to ...

A review of the Webinar 'The features and updates of Fedora 3.6'

30/10/2012

The webinar entitled ‘the features and updates of Fedora 3.6’ presented by Edwin Shin, at ‘the DuraSpace Community Webinar Series’ is now available. This webinar presentation talks about the recent developments to FedoraCommons and further gives a foreglimpse of the future updates to the software. Access to the recorded webinar   Fedora 3.6 ...

The session on 'Promotion of Open Access' now online

30/10/2012

During the fifth webinar of the Open Access Week@AIMS on Thursday Stefano Anibaldi, Peter Hessels and Sridhar Gutam presented their experiences on how to promote Open Access in different parts of the world. Stefano Anibaldi started with the presentation about AGRIS and followed by Peter Hessels who introduced the ...

Linked Data Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space

29/10/2012

I would like to share with the AIMS Community a reference to the book Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer. It was published in 2011 by North Carolina Morgan & Claypool Publish. The abstract is as follows: The World Wide Web has ...

Breakout session at GCARD2 on “Access, sharing and transformation of agricultural data and information" leaded by CIARD

29/10/2012

On 30th October, the CIARD partners will lead a breakout session at the second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD-2) in Uruguay, on “Access, sharing and transformation of agricultural data and information”, addressing one of the collective goals identified in the GCARD Roadmap. The session will feature a ...