AIMS

Collective actions needed to open access to agricultural information in the Asia-Pacific region

21/11/2012

One of the main issues for agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region is the lack of accessibility of useful and relevant agricultural information. Main actors in the region need to come together and come to collective decisions to open and share agricultural knowledge. This is now going to happen mid ...

Created in Peru the National Network for Dissemination of Specialized Agricultural Information - REDIAGRO

21/11/2012

In October the Government of Peru announced the creation of the National Network for Dissemination of Specialized Agricultural Information (REDIAGRO), which will serve to guide planning and decision making and strengthen research and innovation in agriculture. REDIAGRO will serve as coordination space to optimize the joint intervention of the three ...

"CIARD Policy Brief: Opening Access to Agricultural Knowledge" leaflet

20/11/2012

Too much valuable research information that can guide decisions and resolve problems within the agricultural domain, is not accessible. What can be done to help institutions to make their data and information more easily accessible to researchers and farmers? The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) movement ...

Towards repository interoperability – free online workshop arranged by COAR

20/11/2012

As mentioned earlier Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published the interesting survey "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)". Now it's time for a free online workshop dealing with the core value of repositories namely: Interoperability. The guest speaker will be Eloy Rodrigues (Univerisity of Minho, Portugal) chair ...

New draft standard XKOS developed at Dagstuhl workshop

13/11/2012

The AIMS team as part of its work in promoting good practices in information management participated in the development of the new draft standard XKOS at the Dagstuhl workshop “Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Linked Data Web” in Wadern, Germany, October 15...