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Data Policy - Harvest of the metadata from DFID

20/01/2012

1.     1. BEN: dc:creator – we cannot currently split the authors accurately into different single tags or distinguish people from institutions.  We are working towards splitting out Author/Editor/Publisher but at the moment, they are all in 1 field in the database with some organisations mixed in as well. Stefano: this is ...

Information management in agriculture in the Asia Pacific region

20/01/2012

In 2011, Information management in agriculture received further support, in the Asia Pacific region, through the conduct of three sub-regional workshops: South Asia (Dhaka, Bangladesh), South East Asia (Bangkok, Thailand), and Pacific Island Countries and Territories (Nadi, Fiji). Goals of sub-regional workshops The goals of these workshops/expert consultations were to ...

Latin America and the Caribbean to create knowledge management platform

19/01/2012

A regional workshop on “a knowledge management platform in support of agricultural research and innovation” took place in Brasilia, Brazil from 29 November to 1 December. The workshop links to the CIARD initiative. Platform to bring forth agricultural innovation The goal of the workshop was to create a platform for all institutions ...

Course "Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives"

18/01/2012

The Central European University's summer school (CEU SUN) announces the course "Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda", July 2 - 6, Budapest, Hungary. Brief course description This course is intended to serve as a bridge between archivists, curators, researchers, legal experts and policymakers ...

Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries

17/01/2012

On the 14th of February the conference "The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries" will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania Goal The main goal of the conference is to explain to the wide academic community how the latest technologies have been changing their profile in the ...