AIMS

Agrovoc fields in agridrupal

31/01/2012

Hi, I am trying to create a repository and use agrovoc as the vocabulary. Could someone clarify a few points for me: Why the need for the fields Agris subject categories, Agrovocimport and Agrovoc Terms? I have noticed that the fields Agrovocmport and Agrovoc Terms do not appear in the ...

European Commission releases survey report on scientific information in the digital age

31/01/2012

The European Commission (EC) issued online the survey report Online Survey on Scientific Information in the Digital Age(pdf). The EC held the survey late 2011 in the context of obtaining ideas to adopt a Communication and Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information. Objective of survey The objective ...

FAO & UNESCO -IOC/IODE AgriOcean Dspace

30/01/2012

AgriOcean Dspace The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE created a joint initiative to customize version of DSpace (known as AgriOceanDspace-AOD) using standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences. On the 23rd of January FAO and UNESCO-IOC/...

How to get Drupal Community more involved? Survey results

30/01/2012

Drupal.org has over 725,000 registered members in 228 countries. Only a very small percentage of these members contribute back to the Drupal project. Why is this? Survey results online The AgriDrupal community conducted two surveys to find answers to questions as: How can we attract more contributors? What can we do ...

Current Technical Status of AIMS website: update by Macaroni Bros

30/01/2012

Presentation prepared by Macaroni Bros and delivered at FAO on January 20th. It includes an evaluation of the issues and technical status of the platform. The next steps are the following actions: Finalize taxonomies optimization Build taxonomy panels for all section pages Complete PHP nodes migration in module Release first ...