AIMS

NuAges Project for AGRIS2010

20/05/2010

We have been invited by University of Sheffield to participate in "Technology Implementation" Project which has the aim to establish a system for targeted crawling and semantic annotation in the cloud. The partners are Univ. of Sheffield, FAO, Elsevier,  IXXO (French SME), OntoText (Bulgarian SME) and Canonical (Cloud Service Provider ...

Representation of Scientific names and Common names in AGROVOC CS WB

19/05/2010

  While checking the content in the WB after conversion I found the following inconsistencies which need to be considered before June release. The following issues I would like to share with all. Issue 1: In All the Alternative Descriptors are shown as non preferred terms (please find the attachment) in order ...

Scientific terms

19/05/2010

While going through the Agrovoc Concept server,I found some terms are missing which were found in the earlier Agrovoc database (  Eg.common silver fir, Algerian fir). The use of the related term or Use / Use for the refining of the scientific terms/ common names is not yet clear. Is ...

[New Publication] AGRIS-From a Bibliographic Database to a Semantic Data Service on Agricultural Research Information

17/05/2010

AGRIS has for many years provided a huge collection of bibliographic references, such as research papers, studies and thesis, each including metadata such as conferences, researchers, publishers, institutions, and keywords from different thesauri as AGROVOC. With the rise of full text search and online availability of more research material, the ...

PRESS RELEASE - A new platform to promote access to agricultural science: the launch of the new CIARD website

13/05/2010

  PRESS RELEASE    A new platform to promote access to agricultural science: the launch of the new CIARD website   May 2010.  At the XIIIth World Congress of IAALD held in Montpellier, the new website of the global initiative on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) was launched by the ...