AIMS

OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices

17/03/2015

The D-Lib Magazine March/April 2014 published an article surveying metadata use in OpenDOAR repositories.Brief ReviewThe creation of metadata for research and repository content is an essential part of the scholarly communication process and is necessary for the long-term access and preservation of our digital (and digitized) heritage. In spring 2014, ...

Nuevo Webinar@AIMS:Almetrics: El uso de indicadores alternativos en la medición del impacto de producción científica de la región.

17/10/2014

El equipo AIMS se complace en anunciar el seminario web "Almetrics: El uso de indicadores alternativos en la medición del impacto de producción científica de la región."ResumenEn los últimos cuatro años, y tras el vertiginoso crecimiento de las redes sociales que genera la llamada ...

Fedora 4 Training Events in October

20/08/2014

In response to community requests for more Fedora 4.0 training opportunities, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce that four separate face-to-face sessions in four locations have been scheduled for October 2014. Planning and curriculum development for Fedora 4 training is under way for the following events: 1. Fedora User Group Meeting: Karlsruhe, Germany, ...

Building digital educational repositories for agriculture: The AgLR tool

30/06/2014

While there is a wealth of open source software repositories for bibliographic records, such as DSpace, Eprints etc., this is not the case for the educational ones; a short research showed that there are only a few solutions for this purpose and most of them are proprietary ones, commercial software ...

Open Access Repositories session at 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012)

13/12/2012

The AIMS team participated in the Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures of the 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) in Cádiz (Spain) last November 2012 and presented the paper: "Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences ...

Free Webinar on OpenBiblio. Getting small and rural libraries online and into the digital age

11/11/2012

On the 3rd December EIFL-FOSS is organising a webinar looking at OpenBiblio, an open source integrated library management system of particular interest to small libraries with limited technical expertise and resources of less than 50,000 volumes OpenBiblio is based upon MARC21 record format but any compatible format records may be imported (...