AIMS

Free Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

23/01/2012

A free, 5-day Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity will take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 5-9 Marc 2012. This workshop is hosted by The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation EU-ACP (CTA), in collaboration with the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and UN/ECLAC. Topics Participants ...

Today the 1st IODE-FAO Workshop on AgriOcean DSpace takes place

23/01/2012

The 1st IODE-FAO Workshop on AgriOcean DSpace takes place today in Oostende, Belgium. Topics under discussion AgriOcean Dspace: Developments Support AgriOcean Dspace: AIMS – and OceanTeacher Related projects: IODE: POD , Afrilib, OceanExpert FAO: Agris, Linked Open Data Further developments AGRIS and Linked Open Data After a general introduction focussing on the ...

Data Policy - Harvest of the metadata from DFID

20/01/2012

1.     1. BEN: dc:creator – we cannot currently split the authors accurately into different single tags or distinguish people from institutions.  We are working towards splitting out Author/Editor/Publisher but at the moment, they are all in 1 field in the database with some organisations mixed in as well. Stefano: this is ...

Information management in agriculture in the Asia Pacific region

20/01/2012

In 2011, Information management in agriculture received further support, in the Asia Pacific region, through the conduct of three sub-regional workshops: South Asia (Dhaka, Bangladesh), South East Asia (Bangkok, Thailand), and Pacific Island Countries and Territories (Nadi, Fiji). Goals of sub-regional workshops The goals of these workshops/expert consultations were to ...

Latin America and the Caribbean to create knowledge management platform

19/01/2012

A regional workshop on “a knowledge management platform in support of agricultural research and innovation” took place in Brasilia, Brazil from 29 November to 1 December. The workshop links to the CIARD initiative. Platform to bring forth agricultural innovation The goal of the workshop was to create a platform for all institutions ...