AIMS

GCARD endorses CIARD

22/11/2012

A session at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) on “Access, Sharing and Transformation of Agricultural Data and Information” featured CIARD.  Several members of the CIARD Advocacy Task Force and representatives of CIARD partners attended in the session, as chair, panelists, facilitators, and participants. In terms ...

Mark your agenda! New Free Webinars @ AIMS on Linked Open Data

22/11/2012

The AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is glad to announce a series of webinars called Linked Open Data @ AIMS that will take place from December 2012 to February 2013. The traditional approach of sharing data within silos seems to have reached its end. From governments and international organizations to local cities and ...

Is there an API for Agrotagger?

21/11/2012

We are interested in auto-tagging online discussion content with concepts from the AGROVOC vocabulary. Is there some API to a service we can use to automate this, for example like OpenCalais and Reegle have for their vocabularies on Climate Change? Thanks, doug

Collective actions needed to open access to agricultural information in the Asia-Pacific region

21/11/2012

One of the main issues for agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region is the lack of accessibility of useful and relevant agricultural information. Main actors in the region need to come together and come to collective decisions to open and share agricultural knowledge. This is now going to happen mid ...

Created in Peru the National Network for Dissemination of Specialized Agricultural Information - REDIAGRO

21/11/2012

In October the Government of Peru announced the creation of the National Network for Dissemination of Specialized Agricultural Information (REDIAGRO), which will serve to guide planning and decision making and strengthen research and innovation in agriculture. REDIAGRO will serve as coordination space to optimize the joint intervention of the three ...