AIMS

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The use of a common language to facilitate communication of agricultural knowledge, is its first success factor to generate new knowledge

15/02/2012

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? My name is Elizabeth Ascencio Jurado, I work in Lima (Peru) as an Agricultural Information Management Specialist at the Agricultural Dictatorate of Environmental Affairs (Ministry of Agriculture). I am responsable for the ...

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Information management standards are living entities and must evolve over time

15/12/2011

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am currently the President of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). With a Ph.D. in Socio-economics from the University of Social and Economic Sciences, Vienna, Austria, I joined ...

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Around 2005, several people realised that the standard setting process needed an organisational home. AIMS became just that home

15/11/2011

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? Sometimes to start my bio saying that I wrote my first AGRIS input manual with a pen. But by training I am an agricultural entomologist, but I have been involved all my ...

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AIMS provides a sense of direction and guidance on the tools that can be used for implementation of standards

15/10/2011

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? Having taught ‘Agricultural Systems’ and ‘Computer applications in Agriculture’ at the University of Mauritius, I started applying the 'systems' approach to the development of information systems in agriculture. This experience has taken ...

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The use of standards in agriculture allows scientists to share useful information without having to deal with problems of interoperability

15/09/2011

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I studied mechanical engineering, hold a master's degree in telematics and am currently studying political philosophy. I have been working for 5 years now as a senior developer for Infoandina, the office of ...