AIMS

CIARD Presentation at Albert R. Mann Library now online

25/06/2011

In a presentation given at Mann Library in May 2011, FAO’s Dr. Johannes Keizer reviews some of the work of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. This includes collaborating with numerous international organizations to ...

Presentation of AgriDrupal and AgriOcean DSpace at Open Repositories 2011

25/06/2011

The FAO AIMS team presented the projects AgriDrupal and AgriOcean DSpace at the 6th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, the international gathering for a community of stakeholders engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories. Open Repositories 2011 was held in Austin, USA on 6-12 June. More information about ...

FAO Country Profiles Presentation at the SemTech

23/06/2011

The FAO Country Profiles team made a presentation on Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011), the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. The presentation described how users benefit from a Linked Open Data (LOD) ...

The Open Access Map launched during the OAI7 Conference

23/06/2011

The Open Access (OA) Map , launched today during the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), displays the locations of all types of OA-related initiatives, including funding policies, government documents, university mandates and so on. Much of this information already exists but it is scattered across domains. The Map ...

Less than a month for the 2011 EFITA/VOA3R Workshop

21/06/2011

As time approaches for the 2011 EFITA/VOA3R Workshop more comments are welcome on our blog pages! Our intention is to have vivid interactions before the workshop, to open the floor for discussions during the workshop. So far, we have collected five papers: European Competence development: Support of European integration ...