AIMS

Focus on Open Annotation Community Group

24/06/2013

The Open Annotation Community Group (OACG) is one of the 129 groups of interests within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) community and OACG's purpose is to work towards a common, RDF-based, specification for annotating digital resources. The group's activities emanates from two proposals that have emerged over the past ...

6th INASP Open Access Week competition

22/06/2013

The International Network of Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has announced the 6th Open Access week 2013 competition.This will be an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire ...

OrganicDataNetwork for better European organic market information

20/06/2013

The project Data network for better European organic market information (OrganicDataNetwork) aims to increase the transparency of the European organic food market through better availability of market intelligence about the sector to meet the needs of policy makers and actors involved in organic markets. This overall objective will be broken ...

USAID/Tanzania project: designing and collecting more accurate and reliable agricultural data

20/06/2013

USAID/Tanzania started in 2011 a partnership with the Tanzanian National Bureau of Statistics to strengthen agricultural statistics in the country. The project provided a $1.1 million grant to support conducting a Feed the Future baseline survey, and an additional grant to help finance a U.S. study tour for 11 statisticians to ...

DMix : a rig for the Data DJ

19/06/2013

Interesting article presented at CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives (Paris, France) in April 2013  by Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and David A. Shamma (Yahoo! Research) with the title Spinning Data: Remixing Live Data Like a Music DJ. The conference paper presents a demonstration on data visualization as a performance through the use ...