AIMS

Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment at MTSR 2011

20/10/2011

This year the 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment was hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011 bringing together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It was organized by ...

OAI-PMH module for AgriDrupal

14/10/2011

This module provides an implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) for Drupal with support for CCK content types and their fields to expose content (metadata) and be accessible by OAI harvesters. For further OAI documentation, please see here: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ...

Public library links farmers to knowledge - Chile

13/10/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme(PLIP) supports libraries to implement community development projects. In May 2010 PLIP supported with a grant the ‘Communicating Farmers’ service of the Panguipulli Public Library in Chile. Already after one year, the project booked remarkable results. Farmers were not coming to the library The Roads ...

Survey on Improving Metadata Support in DSpace

12/10/2011

The DSpace community is currently holding a survey on how best to improve metadata support in the DSpace software. The goal of the survey is to clarify and build a consensus on what the priority and focus should be for future metadata improvements. While the survey is targeted at DSpace ...

New publications by AGROVOC team

12/10/2011

The AGROVOC team of AIMS has recently published the following two articles:   Armando Stellato, Ahsan Morshed, Gudrun Johannsen, Yves Jaques, Caterina Caracciolo, Sachit Rajbhandari, Imma Subirats, Johannes Keizer (2011). A Collaborative Framework for Managing and Publishing KOS. 10th European Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems (NKOS) Workshop, Berlin (Germany). Location in FAO CDR: ...