******** Apologies for cross-posting ******** The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) Community [1] is pleased to announce a new webinar entitled "Using AGRIS as a portal of choice to access agricultural research and technology information"[2]. The session will take place on the 28th of April 2016 - 16:00 Rome Time [3] and will be presented by Thembani Malapela [4] (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) [5], who is responsible for the AGRIS user support and communication.
ABOUT THE WEBINAR AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. This webinar will present AGRIS international initiative and partnership in the usage of AGRIS bibliographic data as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the basic fundamentals of AGRIS, overview the AGRIS interface, and how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities. REGISTRATION The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to a...@fao.org, containing the following information: your name, affiliation, email and country. [1] http://aims.fao.org<https://faohqmail.fao.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=0--jI3AQmkaX9LiALKvK0pn4AKshRtBIEJFdkf8WGnjIzRh5qOtb1l6UXZwSTxYKWumBwYZm7DA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2faims.fao.org> [2] http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/webinaraims-using-agris-portal-choice-access-agricultural-research-and-technology [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160428T16&p1=215&p2=108&p3=166&p4=33&p5=4&p6=269&p7=170&p8=45&p9=26&p10=370&p11=232&p12=263 [4] http://aims.fao.org/community/profiles/thembanimalapela [5] http://www.fao.org/home/en/ Kind regards, Karna Wegner On behalf of the AIMS editorial team http://aims.fao.org<https://faohqmail.fao.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=0--jI3AQmkaX9LiALKvK0pn4AKshRtBIEJFdkf8WGnjIzRh5qOtb1l6UXZwSTxYKWumBwYZm7DA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2faims.fao.org> Karna Wegner Office of Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy Tel: +39 06 570 52263 [cid:image001.jpg@01D193EB.F1FE2F60]
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