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EIFL-PLIP invites public libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants

01/12/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) invites public and community libraries in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to apply for grants to use information and communication technology (ICT) to extend their services to improve lives in their communities.   Grant maximum: US$15,000 Implementation period: 12 months Application deadline: January 31, 2012   The grants aim ...

Release of the beta version of VOA3R

30/11/2011

The VOA3R plaftform has recently released its  version. It is a social platform for researchers in agriculture & aquaculture in which the content of open access institutional repositories, the AGROVOC thesaurus and terminologies specific to research methods are integrated. At this stage of the project, VOA3R contains 468.983 papers and ...

‘Semantic Web in Libraries' conference broadcast

29/11/2011

The ‘Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB11)’ conference started yesterday the 28th of November (Hamburg, Germany) and will close tomorrow, the 30th of November. The focus of the programme is on scholarly communication in the web of data. The presentations are currently broadcasted live to the web on the SWIB11 website! ...

VOA3R’s vision depicted and described

29/11/2011

The Vision of the VOA3R project is now depicted by the VOA3R Vision map and described in the living document ‘White Paper on Vision’. The map and document reflect all the outcomes of the interactive session that took place during VOA3R's Kick-Off Meeting (2010, Athens) in which all ...

Asset Description Metadata Schema

28/11/2011

The Asset Description Metadata Schema - why? Public administrations, businesses, standardisation bodies and academia are already producing semantic interoperability assets that, if (re)used, can facilitate semantic interoperability. However, these are not always easy to find. The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a common way to describe semantic interoperability ...