AIMS

Survey on Improving Metadata Support in DSpace

12/10/2011

The DSpace community is currently holding a survey on how best to improve metadata support in the DSpace software. The goal of the survey is to clarify and build a consensus on what the priority and focus should be for future metadata improvements. While the survey is targeted at DSpace ...

New publications by AGROVOC team

12/10/2011

The AGROVOC team of AIMS has recently published the following two articles:   Armando Stellato, Ahsan Morshed, Gudrun Johannsen, Yves Jaques, Caterina Caracciolo, Sachit Rajbhandari, Imma Subirats, Johannes Keizer (2011). A Collaborative Framework for Managing and Publishing KOS. 10th European Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems (NKOS) Workshop, Berlin (Germany). Location in FAO CDR: ...

VOA3R/MTSR 2011 Controlled Experiment

11/10/2011

In the framework of the 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment, which will be hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011 Conference, the VOA3R project is organizing an open access review experiment, where an alternative review process for scientific papers will be used, ...

40th ASFA Advisory Board Meeting

11/10/2011

On behalf of the ASFASecretariat The 40th annual ASFA Advisory Board Meeting was held at the Instituto Nacional de Pesca (INP), Guayaquil, Ecuador, 5-9 September 2011.    Opening The meeting was opened by Ms Pilar Solis, Director of INP, Mr Alan Gonzalez, FAO Representative in Ecuador, Mr Richard Grainger, Chief of the ...

AgriOcean DSpace presented at ASFA Advisory Board Meeting

10/10/2011

The 40th annual ASFAAdvisory Board Meeting was held at the Instituto Nacional de Pesca (INP), Guayaquil, Ecuador, 5-9 September 2011.  During the “workshop” day many interesting presentations were given, among others: AgriOcean DSpace: FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE Combine Efforts in their Support of Open Access, presented by Linda Noble (NMBL) on ...