AIMS

DC & iPRES 2013: Metadata and Preservation Experts Meet

04/09/2013

The 2013 editions of the international conferences on Dublin Core (DC-2013) and Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES-2013) have taken off on Tuesday, September 3, and will close on Thursday, September 5. The conferences are collocated in order for metadata and preservation experts to meet, since - to quote the keynote speaker Gildas Illien ...

Repositorios institutcionales de Latino América en una Red Federada: El proyecto “LA Referencia”

03/09/2013

Como la información científica influye significamente al desarollo tecnológico y como la producción científica en América Latina carece de visibilidad, la Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (RedCLARA) ha iniciado el proyecto “LA Referencia”. Los objetivos del proyecto son compartir, dar visibilidad y ...

Case statement: Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group

02/09/2013

The draft case statement for the Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group has been released.  The Wheat data interoperability WG is a working group of the RDA Agricultural data interest group. The working group will take advantage of other RDA’s working group’s production. In particular, the working group will ...

BASE indexed 50 million OAI-records

27/08/2013

BASE, a search engine for academic open access web resources, has indexed more than 50,000,000 OAI-records. The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories among which many are related to agriculture. BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. Repositories ...

General Principles of Open Access

26/08/2013

The Principles of Open Access are now published: 1. Free knowledge from shackles of economic compulsions – adopt principle that ‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’. Implies: In essence this completes the cycle of knowledge and spirals it into growth. A scholar produces original thought in a publication, another ensures its quality ...