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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 ...

Upcoming RDA Second Plenary Meeting: register today!

06/08/2013

Data sharing offers important benefits for scientific progress, but is not yet very easy among scholars. In order to overcome this barrier, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was set-up in 2012. The aim: accelerating and facilitating research data sharing and exchange across different research groups. Coming up this September is the ...

E-learning course on social media & web 2.0 by FAO & UNITAR

05/08/2013

Social Media for development - Why is it important? "It's important to communicate with people in the language they speak, on the platform they use." (Jim Rosenberg, Head Online Communication & Social Media, the World Bank) The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and FAO collaborated to hold the ...