AIMS

[New Publication] The CIARD RING, an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services

20/05/2010

  Creating integrated information services in agriculture giving access and adding value to information residing in distributed sources remains a major challenge. In distributed architectures, value added services by definition interface several information sources / services. Therefore value added services cannot be built without an awareness of what others have done: which ...

Presentation on Information Systems Architectures using CMSs: examples with Drupal

20/05/2010

At IAALD 2010 in Montpellier, the CIARD Content Management Task Force organized a workshop on information systems architectures. Attached is the presentation on "Information / software architectures based on Content Management Systems (CMS): some examples with Drupal"

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 ...