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Interviews

Through AIMS Interviews, community members are able to share experiences and collect case studies about implementing methodologies and good practices in managing agricultural research information. This section presents interviews collected from the AIMS Community around the AIMS subject areas. These interviews are organised into the following categories, AIMS User Interviews, Open Access Interviews and Thematic Interviews.

If you want to participate in any of these interviews or have suggestions, we invite you to contact us providing along a brief description of your request.

experts-on-open-access
"We are also evaluating tools to facilitate open access to learning resources and data" Open access interview with Federico Sancho from IICA
15/07/2013
Federico Sancho is the Head of the Inter-American Information and Editorial Production Center for Agriculture at Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Headquarters.The AIMS editorial team invited Federico Sancho to share ideas and his institution's experiences on openning up access to research outputs and he shares this with ...
open access
experts-on-open-access
CIRAD's work in openning access to its research outputs : An interview with Marie-Claude Deboin
19/06/2013
Marie-Claude Deboin is the head of the Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Service (40 people) at the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD). CIRAD is a French state-owned agricultural research centre which works with developing countries. It has a staff compliment of 1,800, which includes 800 ...
open access architecture
AIMS Community Members
Information management standards form the basis for access, dissemination, discovery and search and retrieval of information
15/06/2013
Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? Information scientist and librarian degree, MSc in digital information and documentation, as well as 12 years of experience in information management and databases. My personal interest in information science field is focused on ...
interoperability standards & formats
AIMS Community Members
Through AIMS tools, our institutions can achieve a transparent exchange of data
15/05/2013
Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am from Costa Rica, a computer engineer with a Masters in Computer Science with an emphasis on Telematics from the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR). I also have taken some ...
library open source software
AIMS Community Members
The challenge is not to make data theoretically accessible, but also practically usable
23/04/2013
Johannes Keizer, Information Systems Officer at FAO of the United Nations, will actively participate in the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture which will take place in Washington, D.C., from 29-30 April, 2013. The goal of this conference is to obtain commitment and action from nations and relevant ...
architecture

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