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AgriOcean DSpace presented at the recent VOA3R Workshop!

11/11/2012

AgriOcean DSpace was presented at the recent workshop on Open Access and Agricultural Repositories held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 18th, 2012 with AgriOcean DSpace: Customized version of DSpace for agricultural and aquatic networks in parallel with developments at Hasselt University. This presentation gave an overview of AgriOcean DSpace features such ...

Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet

11/11/2012

Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet By Richard Kedemi Kenya Agricultural Research Institute   1. Introduction This paper is based on KAINet’s and KARI’s experience and lessons learnt with developing digital repositories using AgriDrupal and AgriOceanDspace. KAINet is a network originally made up of institutions that ...

ICT and producer organizations - online forum 12 to 23 November

08/11/2012

Producer organizations play an important role in tackling the systemic causes of poverty, because they give farmers—men and women—a legitimate voice in shaping pro-poor rural policies.  Producer organizations can function more efficiently by using information communication technologies (ICT) to attract and retain a wider membership, generate more funds, ...

COAR report "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)"

07/11/2012

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published the report "The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)".   Overview of Open Access Repository Interoperability Landscape "The report provides an overview of the current interoperability landscape in terms of the types of services that are now possible because of recent research ...

On CIARD session at GCARD2, Uruguay

07/11/2012

With the endorsement at GCARD2010, CIARD now had became a global movement said Mr. Krishnan Bheenick , Senior Programme Coordinator, Knowledge Management, CTA  one of the panelist at the CIARD session on “Access, sharing and transformation of agricultural data and information”.   During the session in opening remarks as Chair, Ms. Enrica ...