CIARD and CIARD-related updates

Updates from CIARD and from the partners

USAID/Tanzania project: designing and collecting more accurate and reliable agriculture data [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
USAID/Tanzania started in 2011 a partnership with the Tanzanian National Bureau of Statistics to strengthen agricultural statistics in the country. The project...
Posted on: 20/06/2013
DMix : a rig for the Data DJ [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
Interesting article presented at CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives (Paris, France) in April 2013  by Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and David A. Shamma (...
Posted on: 19/06/2013
Certify your Open Data [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
The Open Data Institute (ODI) is today launching Open Data Certificates to help everyone find, understand and use open data that is being released.   The...
Posted on: 19/06/2013
COAR Report on Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published the report, Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating...
Posted on: 18/06/2013
AGROVOC and TESEO met to discuss VocBench [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
The management boards of AGROVOC and TESEO (TEsauro SEnato per l'Organizzazione dei documenti parlamentari) met in Rome last week to compare their experience...
Posted on: 18/06/2013
Strategies and a roadmap to implement Open Access policies in the Latin American and Caribbean region [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recently held a consultation with experts and policy specialists from the Latin...
Posted on: 18/06/2013
Keeping your DSpace storage under control [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
Tips on how to manage a DSpace repository storage are offered by Brum Luyten of @MIRE in a recent posting. The premise of the post is that it is worth...
Posted on: 17/06/2013
Alliance SIDALC libraries in a map [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
On behalf of SIDALC, I would like to thank to all the libraries that have georeferenced their information. This exercise had the objective to raise the...
Posted on: 17/06/2013
Journée d’étude "Les enjeux de l’Open Access pour la recherche" - Aujourd'hui [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
Agropolis International, ADBS-LR et Doccitanist organisent une journée consacrée aux enjeux de l’Open Access pour la recherche. Cette journée se tiendra le...
Posted on: 17/06/2013
G8 Science Ministers endorse the need to increase access to publicly-funded research [source: Feeds from AIMS ]
Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research. They have...
Posted on: 17/06/2013