AIMS

Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information

05/11/2013

Cousera's Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information has  just wound up but if you are interested add this excellent course to your watch list for future sessions. The course, provided by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is eight weeks long and requires about 3-4 hours of study each ...

FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2

05/11/2013

The FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors Version 2 (MCPD V.2) is an international standard, issued in 2012, to facilitate germplasm passport information exchange. It provides the descriptors necessary to describe crop species and create passports. This second version is the result of a thorough revision of the widely used publication "FAO/IPGRI ...

New Webinar@AIMS: "Recommandations pour la gestion de l'information en agriculture: présentation de la plate-forme AIMS"

04/11/2013

L'équipe de rédaction de AIMS est heureuse d’annoncer la tenue du webinaire “Recommendations pour la gestion de l'information en agriculture: Introduction à la plateforme AIMS et son potentiel pour les gestionnaires de l'information”. La session aura lieu le 8 november 2013 à 16 heures (heure de Rome) – et sera présentée ...

Conference on Open Data in Agriculture

04/11/2013

The ‘Open Data in Agriculture: Status and Prospects’ conference to be held on the 12th of November in Paris, France is organised by the French Association of IT in Agriculture (President Jean-Pierre Chanet, Irstea) and Joint Technological Network (RMT) Modelia.org, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Ministry ...

National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI and FAO agree on collaboration in the development of their thesauri

01/11/2013

In recent meetings representatives of the National Agricultural Library of the USA, CABI International and FAO have talked about a strong collaboration in the further development of their thesauri.  Goal of this collaboration is to develop a global agricultural concept scheme to concentrate and streamline the efforts of the 3 organizations ...