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"CIARD Policy Brief: Opening Access to Agricultural Knowledge" leaflet

20/11/2012

Too much valuable research information that can guide decisions and resolve problems within the agricultural domain, is not accessible. What can be done to help institutions to make their data and information more easily accessible to researchers and farmers? The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) movement ...

Towards repository interoperability – free online workshop arranged by COAR

20/11/2012

As mentioned earlier Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published the interesting survey "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)". Now it's time for a free online workshop dealing with the core value of repositories namely: Interoperability. The guest speaker will be Eloy Rodrigues (Univerisity of Minho, Portugal) chair ...

New draft standard XKOS developed at Dagstuhl workshop

13/11/2012

The AIMS team as part of its work in promoting good practices in information management participated in the development of the new draft standard XKOS at the Dagstuhl workshop “Semantic Statistics for Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences: Leveraging the DDI Model for the Linked Data Web” in Wadern, Germany, October 15...

The Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS)

13/11/2012

The CIARD Movement has published a report about the Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS). The report documents the local evidence and lessons learned on the ways in which public research outputs are made truly accessible to audiences in Ghana. This was done through exploration of reports, websites and semi-structured ...

Now online the presentations of the AOS 2012 workshop

13/11/2012

The presentations of the Agricultural Ontology Services (AOS) 2012 Workshop have been uploaded on SlideShare under the AIMS account. An overview of the 18 uploaded slides with links is available on AIMS at aims.fao.org/aos-workshop/2012. Members of the AIMS team held and participated in the following presentations: John Fereira, Valeria ...