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Le projet FreeYourMetadata… avec OPen Refine

Ce billet a également été publié dans l'Observatoire des technologies de l'IST - INRA Signalé par la page Facebook de la communauté AIMS de la FAO, FreeyourMetadata.org est un projet  du  Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) et du MaSTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Ce projet montre des exemples, avec des...

"A review of the CIARD Movement" Its origins, activities, outcomes, issues & future steps

We are pleased to inform that the report A review of the CIARD movement has been recently published on the CIARD website. The report was prepared in the context of the CIARD Global Consultation 2013 which took place in Ethiopia two weeks ago. It covers the following items:

EIFL wins WSIS 2013 Project Prize for excellence

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) was awarded a WSIS Project Prize for excellence in implementation of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) outcomes to achieve an inclusive and development-oriented information society. The award was presented by Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) during the opening ceremony of the WSIS...

Are you an AIMS user? Tell us what you think about AIMS!

The AIMS team is very pleased to invite you to participate in our User Survey 2013. We look forward to your feedback on your interactions with the AIMS platform and input regarding i) published content, ii) available services, iii) subscription to groups of interest and iv) the overall website design. Your sincere responses will help us improve the AIMS platform, which seeks to maintain a leading...

First plenary meeting of the SemaGrow project

On Monday 13 and Thursday 16 May, the 1st plenary meeting of the SemaGrow project will be held in Rome at the University of Tor Vergata. SemaGrow envisages to develop the scalable, efficient, and robust data services needed to take full advantage of the data-intensive and inter-disciplinary Science of 2020 and to re-shape the way that data analysis techniques are applied to the heterogeneous data...

Three libraries win EIFL-PLIP open government award

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) is proud to announce the winners of their fourth Innovation Award – for library services that contribute to open government and e-government services. Congratulations to three public libraries:

ICAR Starts Discussion 'Opening Access to Knowledge and Information in ICAR' on its Facebook Fan Page

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had made its two flagship Journals Open Access few years back. This made the other scholarly reseach journals published by various societies in ICAR to follow the course and transformed their journals as Open Access Journals. Now the ICAR is in the process of formulating an Open Access Policy for all its constituent establishments for opening up...