AIMS

Meeting Open Government in Practice

13/04/2011

We had a very interesting event yesterday evening in Brussels.  It was organized by INIT, a IT company in Germany, that works for the EC-DIGIT-SEMIC.EU project.   Title of the event was  "Open Government in practice - tapping the potential of Linked Open Data".  It was a small event, but ...

E-Discussions on "Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing" 4-15 April 2011

13/04/2011

Second & last week of online discussion CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing! The e-Consultation will be opened from 4 to 15 April at e-agriculture, with the title, Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing, in preparation for an international Expert Consultation in Beijing from 20 to 23 June 2011. For those who ...

Skyping with Iryna Kuchma (eIFL)

06/04/2011

Date: 6th April 2011 Attendants: Imma Subirats & Iryna Kuchma Agenda 1.) Collaboration in the Project on International Cooperation for Open Access initiatives 2.) Open Repository Handbook carried out by eIFL and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)  3.) who is who in the Institutional Repository Communication Platform 4.) Collaboration with EXIT   Minutes 1.) EIFL has accepted the ...

AgriDrupal training workshop for the ZAR4DIN project, 22-25 March 2011, Lusaka, Zambia

03/04/2011

ZAR4DIN is the Zambian national network of Institutions and individuals involved in AR4D information/knowledge generation, management, dissemination and exchange, and has the objective of facilitating access to AR4D information and knowledge, including metadata and full-text documents, through interlinked institutional repositories linked to a national AR4D ...

Integrating IFPRI's Linked Open Data in the FAO Country profiles

30/03/2011

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) adopted and further developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is now available on the key statistics box of FAO Country Profiles. The GHI is a multidimensional statistical tool used to describe the state of countries’ hunger situation.   IFPRI publishes the Global Hunger ...