The FAO AIMS team presented the projects AgriDrupal and AgriOcean DSpace at the 6th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, the international gathering for a community of stakeholders engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories. Open Repositories 2011 was held in Austin, USA on 6-12 June. More information about ...

The FAO Country Profiles team made a presentation on Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011), the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. The presentation described how users benefit from a Linked Open Data (LOD) ...

The Open Access (OA) Map , launched today during the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), displays the locations of all types of OA-related initiatives, including funding policies, government documents, university mandates and so on. Much of this information already exists but it is scattered across domains. The Map ...

As time approaches for the 2011 EFITA/VOA3R Workshop more comments are welcome on our blog pages! Our intention is to have vivid interactions before the workshop, to open the floor for discussions during the workshop. So far, we have collected five papers: European Competence development: Support of European integration ...

DataCite is a consortium of national-scale libraries and research organizations committed to increasing access to research data on the internet. Recently DataCite, BioMed Central and the Digtal Curation Centre has announced an international list of repositories for research data: http://datacite.org/repolist. Some of the datasets that can be ...