Publications
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
La información como objeto social y el entorno bibliotecario
Issued on
2011
This paper (Information as a social object and the library environment) is a descriptive study that analyses information and projects it as a social object at a specific stage of the development of society. To achieve the aims of the paper some terms have been examined from the specialized database...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
Developing methods for extending repository services to increase the accessibility of OA documents in Library and Information Science
Issued on
2011
E-LIS is established, managed and maintained by an international team of librarians and information scientists. Currently it is the largest international repository in the LIS field featuring a collection of more than 11.500 full text OA documents. In the mid of 2010 the demand to revise certain facets of the...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Thesaurus alignment for Linked Data publishing
Issued on
2011
As part of the publication of the AGROVOC thesaurus as Linked Data (LD), AGROVOC is now mapped with six well-known thesauri in the agricultural domain, i.e., EUROVOC, NALT, GEMET, STW, TheSoz, RAMAEU. To find matching candidates, known matching algorithms discussed in the literature and available from public API were used...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
AgriDrupal : repository management integrated into a content management system
Issued on
2011
One of the main obstacles towards a more efficient management and sharing of agricultural knowledge is the lack of good standard-compliant tools whose adoption and maintenance is really sustainable. In particular, in the implementation of repositories, agricultural Institutions have often faced some common issues in the selection of appropriate software...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
AgriOcean DSpace : FAO and UNESCO/IOC-IODE Combine Efforts in their Support of Open Access
Issued on
2011
AgriOcean Dspace is a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE to provide a customized version of DSpace using high standards for metadata, thesauri and other controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and other related sciences. The best of...
Presentation
Peer-reviewed
Changing Platforms: Parallel case studies of repository platform migration projects
Issued on
2011
This presentation is based on the authors’ personal experience of migrating long-established, fully operational repositories between two of the leading open source, open access repository platforms (DSpace and EPrints). In 2010, the E-LIS repository migrated from EPrints to DSpace, while the University of London SAS repository migrated from DSpace to...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
Spring of Tulips : A community based translation of a classification system for Library and Information Science
Issued on
2011
Navigating in large repositories is a tedious task for users, even if they are domain experts as it is expected to be in subject repositories. Several knowledge organization schemas have been employed to facilitate access. E-LIS, the international Open Archive for Library and Information Science provides access to a large...
Conference poster
Peer-reviewed
Linking document repositories, directories and registries using RDF
Issued on
2011
In the development and management of document repositories it is crucial to maximize the standardization of certain group of fields in order to retrieve the documents located in the repository more efficiently. Historically the standardization focused primarily on subject headings, classifications or journal titles. The standardization of personal names has...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
A Collaborative framework for managing and publishing KOS
Issued on
2011
Abstract. In the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the need to revamp its popular agriculture vocabulary AGROVOC using Semantic Web knowledge representation standards combined with the need to provide a collaborative environment for development and maintenance purposes, pushed forward the realization of a dedicated AGROVOC thesaurus...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
A Framework for knowledge sharing and interoperability in agricultural research for development
Issued on
2011
In an ideal world all data would be produced using open formats and would be linked directly to other related data on the web. This would give the possi-bility for service providers to set up information systems by mixing and matching data from different distributed repositories. A scenario like this...