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NISO Launches New Projects to Develop Standards for Bibliographic Vocabulary Exchange

19/03/2015

Announcement below as circulated by NISOThe voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO’s Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by ...

OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens, Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced

16/03/2015

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. Full registration details and a link to the registration form may be found at: http://www.or2015.net/registrationOR2015 ...

AGRIS strategy meeting, Athens (Greece)

09/03/2015

Agro-Know is really glad to host the upcoming AGRIS strategy meeting at its offices. The meeting will take place between 9-13 of March 2015 and will include members of the AGRIS Steering Committee (FAO, CAAS and Agro-Know) who will spend the next days working collaboratively on topics that will formulate the ...

Springer starts pilot project on Linked Open Data

06/03/2015

The original press release is available hereMetadata on conference proceedings will be made available free of chargeSpringer has now opened selected metadata from conference publications, heeding the European Commission’s call for promoting open data. The term Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to structured, machine-readable data, which more and more ...

agINFRA :the vision for the future

06/03/2015

The agINFRA project lasted from October 2011 to February 2015. The presentation below shows the vision after the end of the project. The project promised (1) a data infrastructure, (2) to support agricultural scientific communities, (3) to promote open data sharing , (4) to cultivate and enhance trust in agricultural science communities.Interested in learning more, visit ...