AIMS

Library of Congress announced a plan for moving away from MARC

01/06/2011

The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange ...

Trip Report from jks mission to the States, May 2011

31/05/2011

Executive Summary The goal of  this trip was to discuss recent activities of OEK, especially the CIARD (http:www.ciard.net) initiative and the   work on AGROVOC and linked open data (http://aims.fao.org) with partners in the  USA and to agree on specific collaboration actions.  Main results of ...

Call for Papers-Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories & Infrastructures at Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011

26/05/2011

Part of the Fifth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'11). Yasar University, October 12-October 14, 2011, Izmir (Turkey) Motivation Handling metadata and semantics in open access repositories and infrastructures is becoming increasingly challenging due to emerging requirements like repositories of scientific data sets, interoperability of repositories with external services and ...

Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management: An integrated solution - Bangladesh

26/05/2011

This use case describes the implementation of AgriDrupal at the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management in Bangladesh, with the objective of integrating in a single platform the document repository and web content management requirements. The Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) ...

Call for Papers-The International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) and Agriculture Ontology Service (AOS) 2011

25/05/2011

The International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) has been firmly established and held biannually in Thailand since 1993. To recognize the trends in the service industry, this year SNLP will be held jointly with the Agriculture Ontology Service (AOS) conference, emphasizing on the theme of service research innovation. Paper topics ...