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RIBDA 2009 papers and presentation

19/03/2010

All the RIBDA 2009 papers and presentation are already available at: http://aibdaperu.org/ribda/m_inicio.html The main purpose of the meeting was to carry out a debate on Open Access innovations in agricultural and environmental information and share progress in the free transfer and dissemination of knowledge through ...

Max Planck Society and Springer

19/03/2010

Springer and MPS concluded a new deal, but did not continue the Open Choice agreement. See www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm  .  Not good news

OEKCS WorkPlanning: Graphic Format

18/03/2010

Hi all, I would like to share with all of you the document attached as an exercise of reproducing in a graphic format the WorkPlan available at spreadsheets.google.com/ccc . I think that it can be useful for all of us, especially for those that must define the PEMS ...

D4Science review meeting successfully concluded

17/03/2010

Yesterday was the final review of the D4Science project  (http://www.d4science.eu)  here in Brussels. D4Science is a project to build Virtual Research Infrastructures, in which scientist can collaborate despite of different locations or disciplines.  D4Science run 2008 and 2009 with FAO participation in 2 workpackages,  Community Building ...

AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop-Outcome

12/03/2010

The AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop was held 1-2 March 2010 in Rome. The objective of the workshop was to find a methodology for the conversion from XML to RDF and for the mappings between AgroRDF and AGROVOC .  In the handout session some experiments were carried out, using a small dataset with an automatic ...