AIMS

Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood

15/06/2012

On June 13 and 14, during the International Smartagrimatics Conference a workshop on "Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood". The AIMs team (Johannes Keizer) gave a presentation with the title "Creating Knowledge Bases by annotating large amounts of unstructured data using RDF triples and the AGROVOC concept scheme - the agHARVEST project" . ...

Challenges of Open Access to Knowledge: The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Library Experience

14/06/2012

In the May issue of the online journal "Library Philosophy and Practice" an article about the state of open access at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU) in Nigeria and the challenges confronting its managers was published: Chimezie Patrick Uzuegbu and Faustinus U. McAlbert, "Digital Librarians and the Challenges ...

Batch importing functionality in AgriOcean Dspace

12/06/2012

The AgriOcean Dspace (AOD) version 1.1 came with a new function to import records in AGRIS AP, MODS, Endnote and Web of Science RIS files. It is now possible in the submission process to batch import records in the stated metadata formats. Once you have a file with several records to ...

AGROVOC as linked open data presented at the National Library of Norway

11/06/2012

Today Lisbeth Eriksen, senior librarian at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, held the seminar "Mapping to Dewey" at the National Library of Norway. A presentation on AGROVOC as linked open data and its mapping to the Dewey Decimal Classes (DDC). You can read the presentation online in Norwegian.

AGROVOC search temporarily unavailable!

11/06/2012

Please note that the AGROVOC search pages - Browse Hierarchies & Search Term - are temporarily unavailable. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience.