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IFLA Agricultural Libraries Section - Approved by the Governing Board

19/12/2014

The IFLA Governing Board met at Hague, The Netherlands on the 8 -10th of December 2014 approved Agricultural Libraries Section. Previously, this has been for more than 10 years Agricultural Libraries : Special Interest Group, sponsored by the Science and Technologies Libraries.Scope of the Special Interest Group wasAgriculture is an important activity ...

Submit Your OR2015 Proposal: Conference System Now Open

17/12/2014

The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015, will be held June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. The conference theme is LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS. It is an opportunity to reflect on and ...

Explore and create with Open Data: Highlighting data applications from the latest Global Hunger Index

11/12/2014

For the past three years, the Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger by region and country, has been published as Linked Open Data (LOD). The GHI highlights successes and failures in hunger reduction and provides insights into the drivers of hunger, as well ...

Land Portal Pioneers Linked Open Data for Land Governance

11/12/2014

On the 10th of December 2014, 'the Land Portal launched an innovative and collaborative Open Data platform that combines data about land issues from diverse and credible sources around the world, enabling easy data exploration, manipulation and customization.Land rights fundamentally underpin economic, social and environmental sustainability, yet land governance in ...

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Production Release- Not Your Dad's Fedora

05/12/2014

Press Release - December 4, 2014Contact: David WilcoxGroundbreaking new capabilities make Fedora 4 the repository platform of choice for right now and into the future. Winchester, MA The international Fedora repository community and DuraSpace are very pleased to announce the production release of Fedora 4. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an ...