The ‘Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB11)’ conference started yesterday the 28th of November (Hamburg, Germany) and will close tomorrow, the 30th of November. The focus of the programme is on scholarly communication in the web of data. The presentations are currently broadcasted live to the web on the SWIB11 website! ...

The Vision of the VOA3R project is now depicted by the VOA3R Vision map and described in the living document ‘White Paper on Vision’. The map and document reflect all the outcomes of the interactive session that took place during VOA3R's Kick-Off Meeting (2010, Athens) in which all ...

The Asset Description Metadata Schema - why? Public administrations, businesses, standardisation bodies and academia are already producing semantic interoperability assets that, if (re)used, can facilitate semantic interoperability. However, these are not always easy to find. The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a common way to describe semantic interoperability ...

The 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop took place from September 28-29, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, as part of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011, formerly ECDL).  The workshop was attended by 35 colleagues from 17 countries on 4 continents. All presentations and abstracts are available ...

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) announced a week ago the names of the 14 winners of their replication grants.  Using ICT in innovative ways  The 14 new services meet community development needs in the areas of agriculture, health, children and youth at risk and employment. They form part of EIFL-PLIP’...