AIMS

Thematic Interview

"The history of VocBench, what we have been doing during the last 15 months and what the future holds"

21/01/2014

Armando Stellato has been collaborating with the AIMS team for many years now. He is currently leading the development of VocBench, a web-based, multi-lingual, editing and workflow tool that manages thesauri, authority lists and glossaries that use SKOS-XL. Recently Vocbench 2.0 was released, a perfect occasion to ask him some questions. ...

experts-on-open-access

"..enhancing the use of geospatial technologies in agriculture.." an interview with Dr.Suchith Anand from "Geo for All" initiative

10/12/2013

AIMS team met Dr Suchith Anand during the Berlin 11 Open Access Conference and he agreed to share with the Agricultural Information Management Standards community about developments in open access to Geospatial resources and projects for developing countries under the "Geo for All" projects. 1. Kindly tell us briefly about yourself and ...

AIMS Community Members

“Coming from Latin America, the main issue agricultural researchers face is access”

18/11/2013

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for?I am a Principal Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of the Coast (ESPOL), located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. I am also a researcher at the ...

experts-on-open-access

''We welcome RDA as a platform that allows us to make better use of data management..." interview with Peter Pissierssens from UNESCO /IOC

14/10/2013

The AIMS editorial team invited Peter Pissierssens to share ideas on his institution and International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange" (IODE) network experiences on openning up access to research outputs within IODE  and he shares this with the agricultural information management community. Peter is actively involved in the Open Data ...

AIMS Community Members

"CIARD has been [...] promoting and providing the tools for breaking down the barriers which many times keep scientific knowledge out of the hands of all"

17/09/2013

Tell us something about yourself... what is your background and role in the organization you are working for? I am the ICT Manager at the CGIAR Consortium in Montpellier, France. I am responsible for implementing CGIAR Consortium Office’s ICT strategy, improving its web-based data, information, and knowledge management systems, ...