AIMS

New Interactive Global Weather Resources Available Through aWhere Inc.'s Open Platform

21/11/2013

As climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers throughout the developing world, aWhere, Inc. announces the inclusion of new global weather resources to help address food security and adaptation to climate change.  The aWhere Platform now offers free access to satellite derived precipitation data and localized weather ...

The Berlin Open Access Conference kickstarts

19/11/2013

The Berlin Open Access Conference roared into life today, and this particular edition is significant in two fronts. Firstly, the conference is held on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration, and secondly, it was in Berlin where the 'Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in ...

Meeting of TaCCIRe and AIMS on the use and integration of controlled vocabularies (AGROVOC) in DSpace Repositories

19/11/2013

On the 15th of November the AIMS editorial team met the consortium of the Tanzanian Climate Change Information Repository (TaCCIRe) project in order to give support and recommendations on the use and integration of vocabularies in digital repositories. The TaCCIRe is a digital online collection that gives visibility to the ...

Consultation on guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the re-use of public sector information

15/11/2013

The EU has recently updated the rules on the re-use of public sector information (PSI), in the form of the revised PSI Directive. Once fully implemented, the Directive will boost the data market in Europe by making all the generally accessible public sector information available for re-use. Developers, programmers, creative ...

Use and integration of controlled vocabularies (AGROVOC) in DSpace Repositories

13/11/2013

From the 11th to 16th of November the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Library is hosting a meeting with people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information ...