AIMS

AGROVOC Topic Map: a new web application

07/02/2012

The Humanities GIS Research Group, established in Japan in 2004, has developed a web application based on AGROVOC, called ‘AGROVOC topic map’. Graphic views of concept hierarchies This application includes browsing and search functionalities in all AGROVOC languages, and graphic views of the concept hierarchies (Vizigate). The system uses AGROVOC URIs, ...

New international standard for thesauri published

07/02/2012

ISO 25964-­1 is the new international standard for thesauri, replacing ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The full title is Information and documentation -­ Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -­ Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval. As well as covering monolingual and multilingual thesauri, it addresses 21st century needs for data sharing, networking ...

INASP's 20th anniversary symposium

06/02/2012

This year marks INASP's 20th anniversary (1992-2012). In celebration of two decades of work, INASP is hosting a Symposium entitled 'Research, Information and Development: These truths we hold to be self-evident...?'. The Symposium will drawing upon the expertise of INASP partners from around the world, exploring state of the ...

Oxfam launches an open repository

02/02/2012

Oxfam is best known for its anti-poverty programme and campaigning work, but the organization also produces research and policy materials from its experience across the world. To provide open access to their published research, Oxfam GB adopted the Open Repository system based on DSpace. The Oxfam iLibrary provides a single, ...

Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier

01/02/2012

There is an important ongoing academic protest against Elsevier, the largest publisher in the world, that is finding wide acceptance (more than 2,500 researchers have already signed). The protest started by Tim Gowers, American mathematician awarded with a Fields Medal in 1998, on his blogwhere he said that Elsevier's policies are unsustainable ...