Outcome: Though there are many other ongoing activities that were discussed, the priority items for the following 2 weeks were: 1. DFID ingestion by the end of March, regardless of whether we have improved data. A. Fabrizio will start 26th.   2. OR2012 one page proposal A. Yves will write down proposal by 23rd ...

In a recent publication entitled  Agricultural Research[1] , OA initiatives case studies at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are  presented. CGIAR prioritizes the communication of agricultural research results and incorporates the research workflows to the agricultural research. Therefore, the Triple-A framework (Availability, Accessibility and Applicability) was adopted as ...

Dear all, As we announced last week, the next step is to bring into the discussion the AIMS main navigation menu. You will find the proposed menu down below, which is slightly different to what was available in the last mock-up. It includes three levels: the first and the second ...

The Vocabularies, mEtadata Sets and Tools (VEST) Registry for agricultural information management has been enriched with the following four resources: Tools Evergreen, an open source integrated library system. Pubby, an RDF server that adds a Linked Data interface to existing SPARQL-capable triple stores. VIVO, an open source semantic web application. ...

We looked over the issues in the ingestion of WB bibliographic records and came to the conclusion that we had best ask them a few more questions before proceeding. Stefano can send these questions out (better phrased) to follow up on the previous mail. Or we could clean up the ...