Linked Data

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    Joint Webinar of FREME and LD4LT on language technologies

    The FREME project is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to address the general systemic and technological challenges in order to validate multilingual and semantic technologies that are ready for their integration in real life business cases in innovative way. These technologies are capable to process (harvest and analyse) content, capture ...
  • Value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository (WaY)

    The presentation introduced the Wageningem Yield (WaY) repository within the context of the METIS system (a university-wide research information system also used as a data entry for the repository). Through this infrastructure, the repository contents have managed to grow, for example, since 2003, 100 000 records were fed to the repository by the ...
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    AGRIS e-consultation survey results

    The AGRIS e – consultation survey took place from November 2014 to February, 12nd 2015.The purpose of the survey was to get AGRIS user feedback on various aspects of AGRIS platform, and furthermore, get AGRIS’ users to participate in the continuous development of the AGRIS in 2015 and beyond. The e-consultation focused on ...
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    agINFRA EC project successfully concluded and... continuing

    The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed.agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability.agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and ...
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    Vocbench 2.2 has been released

    Dear Vocbenchers,After almost seven months, a new version of VocBench (2.2) has been released.We had so many features being developed in parallel, that one month ago we decided to consolidate a few of them and freeze the others for a while, so to have a first release 2.2 and then ...
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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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    Linked Open Data : A Use Case in the Agricultural Domain

    In the Linked Open Data paradigm, institutional repositories have the opportunity to enhance shareability, extensibility, and re-usability of their data by ensuring:content stable, discoverable, and readable data by both machines and humansuse of appropriate well established metadata standards and emerging Linked Open Data enabled vocabulariesuse of controlled vocabularies, authority ...
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    Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets: Presentations online

    The presentations and slides of the "First Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" (LCPD 2013), which took place last September, are now available online. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Library, e-Science, and e-Research with a forum where they ...
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    Open Access Repositories session at 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012)

    The AIMS team participated in the Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures of the 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) in Cádiz (Spain) last November 2012 and presented the paper: "Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences ...