AIMS

Thematic Interview

5 Questions on the AGROVOC Community of Practice

15/10/2012

Who is involved in the AGROVOC community and who is invited to participate? AGROVOC is a resource used in many different applications and contexts, therefore users of AGROVOC are people with a variety of profiles, who look at AGROVOC from many different perspectives and for a variety of purposes. Think ...

AIMS Community Members

AIMS communities will ease in finding other professionals struggling with similar problems

15/09/2012

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am originally a researcher in zoology. I switched profession and became an information specialist in 1994. Since then I have worked in the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, in various information management ...

AIMS Community Members

AIMS brings in the benefit of aggregated information in easy to access mode with embedded world standards

15/07/2012

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am Associate Professor at the Documentation Research and Training Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute and Adjunct faculty at the Department of  Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento, ...

AIMS Community Members

It brings sense to a vast world of sometimes confusing information resources and tools

15/04/2012

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? My background is in communication for development, working with small organizations - radio stations and libraries - that disseminate information and encourage community participation in content. Currently, I work for EIFL (Electronic ...

AIMS Community Members

My belief that ICT can help agriculture meet the needs of the earth's growing population

15/03/2012

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am a retired GIS Database developer, having worked in that field for 17 years. Half of that time I worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the rest I worked ...