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  • 4 Stars for Metadata

    One of the outcomes of the LOD-LAM Summit was a draft document proposing a new way to assess the openness/usefulness of linked data for the LAM community. This is a work in progress, but is already provoking interesting debate on options as the authors try to create a shared ...
  • First meeting of the Collaborative Thesaurus Working Group

    It was a very interesting and useful experience to attend the Thesaurus Working Group meeting. The meeting started with presentations of the following different thesauri from the EU,  describing the basic functionalities including the mapping techniques: The Eurovoc team presented their mapping tool.  The commercial mapping tool has very nice ...
  • Online Course "Innovative Collaboration for Development"

    The "Innovative Collaboration for Development" online tutored  course is an initiative of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It focuses on capacitating development professionals to adequately use ...
  • Implementing the FAO Open Archive based on Fedora Commons and FRBR

    Summary The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has more than 50 yeas of experience in the collection, production and the diffusion of information on agriculture and related sciences. To facilitate access to FAO publications the Organization has implemented two document repositories: the FAO Online Catalogue (FAODOC) and ...
  • Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) Institutional Repository

    AIMS invites you to share your experiences in the implementation of intitutional repositories in the agricultural domain. Our first contribution comes from Botswana where Poloko Ntokwane at the Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) has implemented an institutional repository using Greenstone. In the article Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) Institutional Repository ...