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Cape Town Declaration (2015)
Just before the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2015, ministers and country representatives from 13 African countries met in a pre-meeting together with the IFLA president Sinikka...
2015 Blog archive
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Open Data in Africa : A path in the right direction
In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive...
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GODAN participates in new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
The new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development is a high level initiative that will strengthen the Data Revolution for sustainable development and inclusive growth. It is mainly organized...
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De Gruyter - IFLA LTR Research Award 2015: Winning paper will be published in De Gruyter Journal
This year the IFLA section Library Theory and Research (LTR) proposed a topic for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 and set the focus on "Advance research on Digital...
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Open access movement in Zimbabwe: A 10 year review (2005 -2015)
IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research...
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Filling data gaps to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals
The "Harnessing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development" workshop took place on the 15th of July and aimed to address and close data gaps in official statistical systems...
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MTSR Conference Programme now available
The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September...
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Control the way you receive news and notifications from AIMS
The AIMS Editorial team would like to notify all AIMS users that they can now control e-mail alerts coming from AIMS. All users have an opportunity to pre-select the subjects of alerts they...
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Presenting usages of KOS in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference"
The FAO AIMS team presented usages and the power of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference" that...
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Contributing bibliographic information to AGRIS
Earlier this year, the AGRIS Data Processing unit announced the New AGRIS Online Service Desk running on Agro-Know Stem service. This service is meant to streamline the submission of data to AGRIS...