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Gudrun Johannsen - 24 إبريل 2013
The AGROVOC Team cordially invites you to participate in the Survey about the Usage of AGROVOC. The purpose of this survey is to get your feedback on the access and usage of AGROVOC, and your responses will be useful for AGROVOC further improvements.
Initially, AGROVOC was used primarily within libraries, however, to date AGROVOC has evolved and now has a wider range of applications, including...
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Antonella Picarella - 23 إبريل 2013
The AgriDrupal team released a new version of AgriDrupal based on Drupal 7, now available at: http://www.agridrupal.org/downloads/AgriDrupal/Agridrupal7.x.7.9
The new version provides the following new features:
Basic RDF store, implementing the LODE-BD recommendations for bibliographic resources and FOAF for experts and organizations
SPARQL endpoint
Better implementation of...
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The AIMS Team - 23 إبريل 2013
The AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is pleased to announce the webinar How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographic data.
This event is part of the series of webinars Linked Open Data @ AIMS that started in December 2012. The objective of Linked Open Data @ AIMS is to introduce information management specialist into...
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The AIMS Team - 23 إبريل 2013
Johannes Keizer, Information Systems Officer at FAO of the United Nations, will actively participate in the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture which will take place in Washington, D.C., from 29-30 April, 2013.
The goal of this conference is to obtain commitment and action from nations and relevant stakeholders to promote policies and invest in projects that open access to...
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Imma Subirats - 23 إبريل 2013
This might be of interest to the AIMS community members interested in exploiring new forms of scholarly communication.
Some days ago it was announced the launch of the W3C Research Object for Scholarly Communication (ROSC) Community Group (#rosc). The primary goal of the Community Group is to provide a platform for scholars, librarians, publishers, archivists and policy makers to exchange...
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Alfred Gumbwa - 22 إبريل 2013
The VLCD is a one stop shop digital library that offers fast, well-structured and unified interface to access free full-text copies on capacity development produced and published by the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), its networks and partners. The VLCD collections comprise books, occasional papers, working papers, reports, development memoirs, lesson notes, conference papers etc....
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Imma Subirats - 22 إبريل 2013
Digital Green is an interesting ongoing knowledge exchange project in India. With the objective of improving the food and nutrition security of small and marginal farmers Digital Green produces videos by farmers, of farmers, and for farmers. Videos showing sustainable agricultural practices and technologies with both short-term and long-term rewards that increase motivation.
Farmers learn about...
