AIMS

3,000 rice genome sequences made publicly available on World Hunger Day

12/06/2014

The following is a press released by GigaScience Journal and we share it with AIMS members verbatim, the original release can be read here. Key Highlights  The GigaScience Journal publishes an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable ...

Meeting of the GACS working group and Steering Group

11/06/2014

Since January 2014  CABI, Wallingford, the National Agricultural Library of the USA and FAO are working together in a project with the final goal to align their 3 thesauri and to form the  core of a  Global Agricultural Concept Scheme  (GACS). A working group with representives from the 3 organizations was formed and ...

Collaboration between CAAS and AGRIS teams in the context of the agINFRA project

10/06/2014

One of the expected outcomes of the agINFRA project is to enhance the exposure options of Chinese agricultural research respositories and enhance their interoperability with other related repositories and networks. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) is one of the consortium partners of the agINFRA project and the work ...

LinkedUP Vici competition launched

09/06/2014

The LinkedUp project has announced its third and final competition -the Vici competition. Eligible members within the AIMS Community and especially those who are from developing countries are encouraged to apply with regards to the first track. Vici invites users to design and build advanced prototypes and tools that are ...

AIMS team participates in the Open Repositories Conferences 2014

09/06/2014

The AIMS team joins other stakeholders for the 9th International Conference on Open Repositories 2014 (OR2014) which is being held in Helsinki, Finland. The theme for this year is 'Towards Repository Ecosystems' motivated by the idea that repository systems are a central part of the 21st century research ecosystem. Also, it ...