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Peter Ballantyne is the head of Communications and Knowledge Management at ILRI. He has been involved with CGSpace from its very beginning. The key individuals involved in running the platform are Abenet Yabowork who manages content for ILRI and supports partners, Sisay Webshet who supports technical developments and Alan Orth ...

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OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices

17/03/2015

The D-Lib Magazine March/April 2014 published an article surveying metadata use in OpenDOAR repositories.Brief ReviewThe creation of metadata for research and repository content is an essential part of the scholarly communication process and is necessary for the long-term access and preservation of our digital (and digitized) heritage. In spring 2014, ...

COAR participates in EC project OpenAIRE2020

05/12/2014

COAR will be leading a "work package" as part of the European Commission’s OpenAIRE2020 project. The work will focus on aligning repository networks globally and build on our existing activities in this area. Quoting from the proposal, "Aligning networks will help avoid regional silos and support global interoperability of ...

New in E-LIS: Opening access to agricultural information in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia

08/05/2013

New in E-LIS, the paper: "Opening access to agricultural information in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia" by Justin Chisenga of the Regional Office for Africa (RAF) for FAO of the UN, presented at the XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), Nairobi (Kenya), 4-8 ...

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