AIMS

New feature in AGRIS: multilingual search!

21/01/2015

We are pleased to announce a new feature available in the AGRIS Web site (http://agris.fao.org/ ): the multilingual search. The final goal is to allow users to query the AGRIS database in their own native language, retrieving also results in different languages. This is an optional feature (not ...

OCLC releases WorldCat Works as linked data

06/05/2014

[Abstact] OCLC has reported that it has made 197 Million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works -available as linked data. This will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories ...

NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

08/02/2013

The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how “open” an item is. Currently, there is no standardised bibliographic metadata that provide information on whether ...

Free Webinar on OpenBiblio. Getting small and rural libraries online and into the digital age

11/11/2012

On the 3rd December EIFL-FOSS is organising a webinar looking at OpenBiblio, an open source integrated library management system of particular interest to small libraries with limited technical expertise and resources of less than 50,000 volumes OpenBiblio is based upon MARC21 record format but any compatible format records may be imported (...