AIMS

CSWB/VocBench used for Authority Control of Bibliographical Data

06/07/2011

Work Overview December 2010-June 2011 (Sarah Dister) Tasks executed: Finished cleaning up the migrated bibliographic headings coming from FAOdoc and CDR.  3,536 concepts for Corporate Bodies were created 586 of them linked to FAOTerm; 1,695 contained a relationship isPart Of; 62 were identified as obsolete. Homonyms were disambiguated by consulting external information resources, however, they ...

VocBench 1.1 presented at SemTech 2011

06/07/2011

At SemTech 2011 in San Francisco, the AIMS team presented the business case and community of practice for VocBench, its distributed, web-based ontology editing and management system. VocBench is a web-based multi-lingual vocabulary management tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It transforms thesauri, authority lists ...

Knowledge Sharing for Development covers a wide range of tools and methodologies

05/07/2011

IMARK is pleased to announce the release of Knowledge Sharing for Development, an e-learning module with 36 lessons covering a wide range of tools and methodologies to support knowledge sharing. The module covers the basics of knowledge management, explores the benefits of communities and networks, and provides guidance on how to ...

Capacity building for open access repository administrators and managers: EIFL-OA – KIT – COAR online workshop

04/07/2011

What kind of online tools and resources are available for repository administrators and managers? How can we share knowledge, exchange expertise and build capacities to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability? What kind of professional support can open access repository administrators and managers receive?  The guest ...

Preliminary results of the CIARD International Expert Consultation 2011

04/07/2011

Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing Preliminary results of an International Expert Consultation This discussion paper presents preliminary results from an International Expert Electronic Consultation on developing a CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing held online from 4 to 15 April 2011 by Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research ...