AIMS

National Agricultural Research Information Management System (NARIMS) -- A showcase of success using FAO tools and methodologies for agricultural information management

02/08/2006

The NARIMS team in Cairo is finalizing a system that will serve the researchers and librarians as a key scientific gateway of Agricultural content in Egypt. The most important component of the system is the "Publications module", a fully XML-enabled system that allows both the import and export of data ...

The AGROVOC Thesaurus has been incorporated within the Tropes Zoom Semantic Search Engine

08/06/2006

The AGROVOC Thesaurus has been incorporated into the Tropes Zoom Semantic Search Engine, developed by Semantic-Knowledge, a consortium of several Europe's leading linguistic software companies. AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (...

Overfishing alert system: a challenge for electronic communication

20/03/2006

FAO-EU meeting on new frontiers and projects in global knowledge exchange Working to bring information closer to the people who really need it is one of the aims of a meeting at FAO headquarters from 20 to 22 March 2006 involving 65 experts in the field of knowledge technology and communications from universities, research ...

March 2006 – IMARK launches new e-learning module to help managers in international development address the challenges of the new information environment.

01/03/2006

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pleased to announce on behalf of the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) Steering Group, the release of the English version of the latest IMARK e-learning module "Investing in Information for Development". The module addresses the needs of managers and ...

Agricultural Information and Knowledge Management Papers - entire series now available

17/01/2006

Effective information integration, retrieval, and exchange require agreed standards. Since the late nineties, GILW has been setting standards in information management in agricultural development and food security. It has been working with various departments within FAO, its member countries and other partners to develop and disseminate global standards and procedures ...