AIMS

Knowledge Sharing : The CGIAR OA case studies

20/03/2012

In a recent publication entitled  Agricultural Research[1] , OA initiatives case studies at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are  presented. CGIAR prioritizes the communication of agricultural research results and incorporates the research workflows to the agricultural research. Therefore, the Triple-A framework (Availability, Accessibility and Applicability) was adopted as ...

Main navigation menu - A proposal

19/03/2012

Dear all, As we announced last week, the next step is to bring into the discussion the AIMS main navigation menu. You will find the proposed menu down below, which is slightly different to what was available in the last mock-up. It includes three levels: the first and the second ...

VEST Registry enriched

19/03/2012

The Vocabularies, mEtadata Sets and Tools (VEST) Registry for agricultural information management has been enriched with the following four resources: Tools Evergreen, an open source integrated library system. Pubby, an RDF server that adds a Linked Data interface to existing SPARQL-capable triple stores. VIVO, an open source semantic web application. ...

World Bank notes from 12/03/2012 meeting

16/03/2012

We looked over the issues in the ingestion of WB bibliographic records and came to the conclusion that we had best ask them a few more questions before proceeding. Stefano can send these questions out (better phrased) to follow up on the previous mail. Or we could clean up the ...

New mock-up for the AIMS homepage

14/03/2012

Thanks a lot for your feedback! Based on all your comments we have prepared a new mock-up.Some notes: the banner (trying not to use the term tagcloud anymore :-) with the AIMS topics will be linkable. It is an image, so the size of each resource can be changed; ...