AIMS

New "Agriculture News" portal launched by FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa

02/12/2011

The new Agriculture NewsPortal of the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE) is now operational and available online in both English and Arabic for strengthening agriculture information dissemination and knowledge sharing in Near East and North Africa region. How do you rate the newly established ...

Contribute to the World Bank's "ICT in Agriculture" sourcebook

02/12/2011

The World Bank and the e-Agriculture community are collaborating together in a series of online forums to further develop resources for the recently launched “ICT in Agriculture” Sourcebook. These discussion forums, available to all e-Agriculture community members, will be vehicles to inform the World Bank of other projects/programmes that ...

EIFL-PLIP invites public libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants

01/12/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) invites public and community libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants to use information and communication technology (ICT) to extend their services to improve lives in their communities.   Grant maximum: US$15,000 Implementation period: 12 months Application deadline: January 31, 2012   The grants aim ...

Release of the beta version of VOA3R

30/11/2011

The VOA3R plaftform has recently released its  version. It is a social platform for researchers in agriculture & aquaculture in which the content of open access institutional repositories, the AGROVOC thesaurus and terminologies specific to research methods are integrated. At this stage of the project, VOA3R contains 468.983 papers and ...

‘Semantic Web in Libraries' conference broadcast

29/11/2011

The ‘Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB11)’ conference started yesterday the 28th of November (Hamburg, Germany) and will close tomorrow, the 30th of November. The focus of the programme is on scholarly communication in the web of data. The presentations are currently broadcasted live to the web on the SWIB11 website! ...