AIMS

Evaluation of the Usability and Features of AGRIS 2.0

13/03/2014

Background AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a database with more than 7.7 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. The database is curated by FAO, and its content is provided by more than 150 participating institutions from 65 countries. With its search system, AGRIS helps scientists, researchers ...

Manuel Hidalgo presents Spanish Webinar@AIMS about ABCD

13/03/2014

On Friday, the 7th of March 2014 Manuel Hidalgo presented the webinar „Integrated System for the administration of libraries: ABCD“ ("ABCD: Sistema integrado para la administración de bibliotecas") in Spanish. He showed and explained the system and its technological basis, its features and capabilities as well as important functionalities like ...

Pledge for investments into a Linked Open Data infrastructure for Agricultural Development

12/03/2014

[As published on CIARD]   Prologue   The Land Portal, AGRIS, Eldis, Global Rangelands, Organic Edunet, Plantwise Knowledge Bank, Prodinra and the other undersigned data service providers play important roles as global sources of development information in their respective domains.  To meet critical information needs of their users requires continuous attention to ...

TemaTres controlled vocabularies server

11/03/2014

TemaTres is an open source vocabulary server, web application to manage and exploit vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies, and formal representation of knowledge.TemaTres can support distributed management models, ensuring consistency and integrity of data and relationships between terms. Term Features It has features specially designed to provide data traceability and quality ...

Webinar on OpenAIRE compatibility for repositories

11/03/2014

OpenAIRE is offering open webinars on OpenAIRE compatibility for repositories on Tuesday, March 18 and on Tuesday, April 1. Webinar details Tuesday, March 18 11:00 – 12:00 CET (DSpace repository platform) 14:00 – 15:00 CET (proprietary platforms) 15:30 – 16:30 CET (EPrints repository platform) or Tuesday, April 1 11:00 – 12:00 CET (proprietary platforms) 14:00 – 15:00 CET (EPrints repository platform) 15:30 – 16:30 CET (DSpace repository platform)   The purpose of the ...