Avano, a marine and aquatic sciences OAI harvester, now offers access to electronic resources about marine and aquatic sciences. The resources available in Avano come from the OAI harvesting of over 200 Open Archives and a number of commercial editors. The first harvesting was done in batch mode producing a legacy ...

The AgLR 2008 e-Conference aims to initiate dialogue around the topic of Agricultural Learning Resources, involving organizations and individuals that are active in the field of agricultural learning repositories. The workshop is supported and promoted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) which has been created to help make available ...

In the field of agricultural education, specifications and standards produced in the area of agricultural learning technologies have not yet been widely adopted and implemented. Sharing, preserving and reusing learning information among a large number of different systems and repositories would not only lead to wider dissemination of learning technology ...

The latest release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus in Slovak has now been updated on the AIMS web site. The Slovak version was released in 2005 by ÚVTIP in Slovakia, and contains more than 25799 agricultural related terms. Any inquiries regarding the Slovak version of AGROVOC should be directed to Jozef Bartko (bartko@...

The Center for International Forestry Research has recently submitted over 650 records for inclusion in the AGRIS Repository. The records, available now in XML format, cover the period of 2004-2007. This return to AGRIS is made possible by the AGRIS Application Profile, a standard which promotes sharing of metadata in XML ...