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The DSpace 2013 RoadMap and 3-5 Year Vision

24/07/2013

The DSpace 2013 RoadMap and 3-5 Year Vision was recently presented (in part) during the "DuraSpace Plenary" talks, at the 2013 Open Repositories. The presentation recapped the developments made in DSpace 3.X, with its features enumerated. The DSpace 2013 RoadMap DSpace 2013 Roadmap maintains the committers team which will have additional members and the ...

aWhere Platform to Provide Satellite Derived Precipitation Data this Fall

23/07/2013

aWhere’s Open Platform for Global Development offers a powerful tool for monitoring and evaluation automation, real-time collaboration and secure data management.   Through this platform, users can freely access localized weather data.  These weather data contribute to global development efforts in Africa and Asia; improving research and providing greater context ...

Webinar@AIMS: How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing LOD-enabled bibliographic data (31st July 2013)

23/07/2013

The AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is pleased to announce the webinar How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographic data.  This event is part of the series of webinars Linked Open Data @ AIMS that started in December 2012. The objective of Linked Open Data @ ...

Heritage vocabularies from EH, RCAHMS, RCAHMW available as Linked Open Data

22/07/2013

English Heritage (EH), the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW), the Archaeology Data Service and the University of South Wales are pleased to announce that cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies are now freely available ...

AgriVIVO is growing: new AIMS members and new data from CABI

18/07/2013

New AIMS members in AgriVIVO Some time ago we introduced AgriVIVO to the AIMS community. AgriVIVO is a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities. We are very glad that in the last month 21 new people ...