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National Repository of Open Education Resources launched in India

14/08/2013

During the National Conference on ICT in School Education in New Delhi on 13th August, 2013, a 'National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER)' was launched by Dr. M. M. Pallam Raju Minister Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India. The notable thing of the NROER is that it uses ...

Face to Face meeting of the "Agricultural Data Interest Group" at 2nd RDA Plenary Meeting

13/08/2013

A face to face meeting of the Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group (AGD IG) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place during the 2nd RDA Plenary meeting. Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013  Location: Conference venue (Mariott Hotel, Washington D.C., USA)  Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Focus on Charters ...

IFLA launches new repository at IFLA WLIC 2013

12/08/2013

IFLA will launch its new repository - IFLA library - publicly at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013 which will take place next week in Singapore. IFLA Library is using EPrints to build and host the repository and currently contains all IFLA WLIC 2013 papers, existing IFLA standards, and a ...

Repository of International Labour Organization uses Invenio

07/08/2013

The International Labour organization (ILO) of the United Nations (UN) is using Invenio − a free, open-source software to run a document repository on the web − for its institutional repository Labordoc. Labordoc Labordoc contains the digital version of the vast majority of ILO publications since 1919, more than 80,000. The collection is full-text ...

Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus published as Linked Open Data

06/08/2013

"With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data." [1] The Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) can be added to the rapidly increasing number of interlinked datasets that are published as Linked Data, since China's largest thesaurus in the agricultural domain has now been published as ...