Interviews

Through AIMS Interviews, community members are able to share experiences and collect case studies about implementing methodologies and good practices in managing agricultural research information. This section presents interviews collected from the AIMS Community around the AIMS subject areas. These interviews are organised into the following categories, AIMS User Interviews, Open Access Interviews and Thematic Interviews.

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  • Participation of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in the OpenMinteD Project: behind the scenes. An interview with Information and Knowledge Management Officer at INRA - Sophie Aubin

    This interview is complementary to the blog post: "OpenMinTed: new EU project for text and data mining. Behind the scenes."Ranked the number one agricultural institute in Europe and number two in the world, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA carries out mission-oriented research for high-quality and healthy ...
  • Shaik N. Meera

    Collaboration on Rice Data Interoperability - an Interview with Shaik N. Meera

    What is your background and how about your current activities?I have started working on ICT enabled agricultural extension since my PhD at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Since then, I have been passionate about working on digital opportunities for freely shared data, information and knowledge for better livelihoods in ...
  • "BigDataEurope is reaching out to stakeholders in all seven H2020 societal challenges to understand their data and knowledge needs" - an interview with Bryn Williams-Jones

    Amongst other things, Bryn Williams-Jones is currently CEO of the Open PHACTS Foundation, and has been involved in establishing and leading Open PHACTS for the last five years. Prior to that he spent 19 years at Pfizer in a number of different roles, latterly with an interest in precompetitive computational drug ...
  • "聚焦中国农业信息管理" ——张学福教授专访

    能否就您自己及在中国农业科学院(The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,简称CAAS)(http://www.caas.cn/)的工作给我们做个简介?         我于1991年和2004年在黑龙江大学分别取得图书情报专业理学学士学位,情报学硕士学位。2006年毕业于中国科学院研究生院/中国科学院文献情报中心,获得图书馆学专业管理学博士学位。我1991年7月开始参加工作,曾任黑龙江大学信息管理学院副院长,2004年晋升教授,2007年成为博士生导师。2006年开始任职于中国农业科学研究院农业信息研究所(http://aii.caas.cn/),2013年起任信息所知识工程研究室主任。主要从事农业知识管理理论、方法、技术方面的研究与应用。您怎样看待中国的农业信息管理社区交流,您认为“中国农业科学院知识管理路线图”项目从AIMS得到什么样的启示?         总体来说,中国的农业信息管理社区交流主要采用QQ群、微信群交流。在工作层面的社区交流也在起步阶段。         “中国农业科学院知识管理路线图”项目是受农业研究论坛(Global Forum on Agricultural Research, 简称GFAR)和联合国粮农组织(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,简称FAO)支持的项目,它是关于CAAS 2030年的远景规划,它将建立一个农业知识管理平台,希望通过这个平台更好的为农业研究人员、农业管理人员、农民等更好地提供信息和知识服务。目前我们与世界粮食计划署(United Nations World Food Programme,简称WFP)、FAO及GFAR等机构专家就这一项目进行了交流学习。         通过交流学习,认为 AIMS将对我们农业信息和知识管理提供有力支持,主要包括AGROVOC、FAO全球农业概念表(Global Agricultural Concept Scheme ,简称GACS)等词表本体,Agrotagger等工具,社区交流以及农业信息标准和实践等。...