AIMS

Vacancy at CABI - Informatician / Semantic Domain & Information Specialist

22/05/2015

AIMS community members may be interested in this current vacancy at CABI. If you wish to apply, please send your application to [email protected]. Please note the closing date for receipt of applications is midday BST, Monday 8 June. ------------------------------------ CABI BACKGROUND CABI (www.cabi.org) is a not-for-profit development-led ...

Support for AGROVOC editors: Guidelines to add new terms & concepts

22/05/2015

A first draft of a manual for AGROVOC editors is now available in PDF, please see the attachment to this post.In this document AGROVOC users are guided through the decision-making process of enriching AGROVOC with terms and concepts, with a special focus on the English version. Dedicated guidelines for ...

Statement against Elsevier’s sharing policy

21/05/2015

Organizations around the world denounce Elsevier’s new policy that impedes open access and sharingOn April 30, 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles. This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors ...

Participate in the Online Survey: The practical use of Big Data for Europe’s Societal Challenges

20/05/2015

​The BigDataEurope ​ ​project has set up a survey identifying current and future challenges for Big data and data management in the seven H2020 societal challenge topics. The primary objective of the survey will be to elicit requirements for the big data integrator platform. Followed by a focus on reviewing the ...

Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgroSEM 15): New submission deadline is 5/6/2015!

19/05/2015

The new submission deadline for AgroSEM is now the 5th of June 2015.About AgroSEM'15The Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgroSEM’15) will take place between 9-11 of September 2015, hosted at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom. As usual, the Special Track is collocated with ...