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  • Release of AGRIS 2.0: Searching agricultural bibliographic data

    The webinar will describe both the new search functions of AGRIS 2.0 as well as its technical foundations: changes in the AGRIS architecture lead to a facilitated search and precise search results. Furthermore AGRIS 2.0 incorporates the OpenAGRIS system, so that it provides a mashup page for every specific resource with related ...
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    New feature in AGRIS: multilingual search!

    We are pleased to announce a new feature available in the AGRIS Web site (http://agris.fao.org/ ): the multilingual search. The final goal is to allow users to query the AGRIS database in their own native language, retrieving also results in different languages. This is an optional feature (not ...
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    OCLC releases WorldCat Works as linked data

    [Abstact] OCLC has reported that it has made 197 Million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works -available as linked data. This will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories ...
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    NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

    The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how “open” an item is. Currently, there is no standardised bibliographic metadata that provide information on whether ...