AIMS

Language barriers in organic & sustainable agriculture education

23/03/2012

Organic.Edunet - an international portal serving the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture community - invites you to parricipate in the survey "Breaking Down Language Barriers in Organic & Sustainable Agriculture Education. The survey has been recently launched to answer questions such as: What are the difficulties you are facing when searching ...

Survey on how information professionals use social media

22/03/2012

The FAO Regional Office for Africa is inviting library and information professionals in the SCESCAL Region (Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations) to take part in a survey on social media. The objective is to establish how library and information professionals are using social ...

Last and final AIMS homepage mock-up

22/03/2012

I am sending attached the last and final AIMS homepage mock-up. Just a short comment with regard to communities: after a long discussion, we realized that communities needs a deep analysis and tune-up. There are some issues with regard which groups are real communities of practive and which should be ...

AGROVOC Web Services will be temporarily unavailable

21/03/2012

Friday, 23rd March 2012 @ 15:00 hours for a 24 hour period   Our research partner MIMOS who provides the infrastructure hosting our Linked Data services will conduct a replacement of a core hardware switch in their Data Center this Friday. This extraordinary event requires that all vocabulary services be unavailable, including:  Web services & VocBench (...

AGRIS Minutes 2012/03/20

21/03/2012

Outcome: Though there are many other ongoing activities that were discussed, the priority items for the following 2 weeks were: 1. DFID ingestion by the end of March, regardless of whether we have improved data. A. Fabrizio will start 26th.   2. OR2012 one page proposal A. Yves will write down proposal by 23rd ...