AIMS

GACS thematic groups from CAB Classified Thesaurus

19/11/2015

I am helping FAO, CAB International, and the National Agricultural Library (USDA) integrate their three thesauri -- AGROVOC, CAB Thesaurus, and NAL Thesaurus -- into a new Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS).In order to present users with a thematic overview of its contents, we looked back to a classification ...

Drupal 8.0.0 to be released soon

19/11/2015

Drupal announced at the beginning of the month that they will be releasing Drupal version 8.0.0 premised for November 19, 2015. Nevertheless, Drupal is continuing to publish Drupal 8 release candidates with latest fixes. The first release candidate was announced at Drupal Con on the 7th of October 2015, with a tremendous number of new ...

Interlinking two institutional KOS about Agroecology: using LOD Agrovoc to circumvent the language barrier in identifying terminological intersections

18/11/2015

This work had been presented during the poster sesssion of DC 2015. São Paulo. September 2015. It may be of interest for the AIMS Community.Cite this work : Aubin, S., Aventurier, P., Pierozzi, I. J., Mendonça Oliveira, L. H. (2015). Interlinking two institutional KOS about Agroecology: using LOD Agrovoc to circumvent ...

2015年CALIS全国农学文献信息中心业务交流暨学术报告会于2015年11月17－20日在重庆西南大学图书馆举行

18/11/2015

        2015年CALIS全国农学文献信息中心业务交流暨学术报告会于2015年11月17－20日在重庆西南大学图书馆举行。        本次年会主题是“交流促进学习，合作推动发展”。会议采取专家报告、成员馆交流以及数据库商代表共同参与的形式进行。报告及业务交流内容包括图书馆资源建设、替代计量学及其应用、图书馆间的合作等。此外，会议还就2014年农学中心研究项目，VIVO项目进展情况及CALIS农学中心其他工作进行讨论和交流。       联合国粮食与农业组织（FAO）信息管理专家Johannes Keizer博士（德国）作为特邀专家参与了会议。

New publication about agINFRA "agINFRA: a research data hub for agriculture, food and the environment"

18/11/2015

Read the new publication about the European project “agINFRA” on the F1000Research Open Science publishing platform: "agINFRA: a research data hub for agriculture, food and the environment", written by Andreas Drakos¹ , Vassilis Protonotarios¹ and Nikos Manouselis²The publication gives an overview about the whole project, including its strategic objectives, ...