AIMS

Linked Data and the Charm of Weak Semantics-- ASIST Bulletin Special Issue

14/04/2015

AIMS community could find the Special Bulletin of the ASIS&T Bulletin April/May 2-15 on "Linked Data and the Charm of Weak Semantics" a good read .The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology is a bi-monthly news magazine packed with developments and issues affecting the field, ...

ORCID Receives $3 Million Grant to expand International Capacity

13/04/2015

ORCID has recently announced that it received $3 Million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor) identifiers, through staff expansion, regional workshops and localized member technical support.Overview ...

AGROVOC latest release is out! March 2015

09/04/2015

Dear all,The latest release of AGROVOC, March 2015, is out!It can be accessed in the following ways:for search and download from our websitethrough web servicesthrough the SPARQL endpointthrough the VocBench SandboxWhat is new?The capitalization of English terms has been completely revised to follow current standards for thesauri. ...

Essential Electronic Agricultural Library INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2015

08/04/2015

ITOCA in collaboration with Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University is inviting applications from eligible institutions for acquiring TEEAL sets. See original announcement here: http://www.itoca.org/node/2063 A total of 132 sets will be awarded to institutions in six African countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda)....

New Webinar@AIMS: Fedora 4 - Introduction and Overview

08/04/2015

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “FEDORA 4 - Introduction and Overview". This webinar will present the FEDORA repository software.The webinar addresses publishers, librarians, information management specialists, software developers, (agricultural) journal editors, related data providers and other interested people.AbstractFedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for ...