Its my view that Open Access concept had not reached researchers in agriculture especially in India. From the time when first OA workshop was conducted by MSSRF in 2004 till date, we have only few journals are OA and very few OA repositories. When I suggest/ask my colleagues to make ...

The International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit (LOD-LAM) will convene leaders in their respective areas of expertise from the humanities and sciences to catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data, specifically: Identify the tools and techniques for publishing and working with Linked Open Data. ...

The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange ...

Executive Summary The goal of  this trip was to discuss recent activities of OEK, especially the CIARD (http:www.ciard.net) initiative and the   work on AGROVOC and linked open data (http://aims.fao.org) with partners in the  USA and to agree on specific collaboration actions.  Main results of ...

Part of the Fifth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'11). Yasar University, October 12-October 14, 2011, Izmir (Turkey) Motivation Handling metadata and semantics in open access repositories and infrastructures is becoming increasingly challenging due to emerging requirements like repositories of scientific data sets, interoperability of repositories with external services and ...