open source software

  • 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 ...
  • KOHA - sistema de administración de bibliotecas

    En este webinar platicaremos sobre las características, módulos y funcionalidad de Koha, además de contextualizar al asistente sobre cómo diseñar y ejecutar un proyecto exitoso de migración y actualización continua.
  • An overview of the CGSpace Repository

    Peter Ballantyne is the head of Communications and Knowledge Management at ILRI. He has been involved with CGSpace from its very beginning. The key individuals involved in running the platform are Abenet Yabowork who manages content for ILRI and supports partners, Sisay Webshet who supports technical developments and Alan Orth ...
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    OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices

    The D-Lib Magazine March/April 2014 published an article surveying metadata use in OpenDOAR repositories.Brief ReviewThe creation of metadata for research and repository content is an essential part of the scholarly communication process and is necessary for the long-term access and preservation of our digital (and digitized) heritage. In spring 2014, ...
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    Fedora 4 Training Events in October

    In response to community requests for more Fedora 4.0 training opportunities, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce that four separate face-to-face sessions in four locations have been scheduled for October 2014. Planning and curriculum development for Fedora 4 training is under way for the following events: 1. Fedora User Group Meeting: Karlsruhe, Germany, ...
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    Building digital educational repositories for agriculture: The AgLR tool

    While there is a wealth of open source software repositories for bibliographic records, such as DSpace, Eprints etc., this is not the case for the educational ones; a short research showed that there are only a few solutions for this purpose and most of them are proprietary ones, commercial software ...
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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 ...