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Call for Papers-Special track on Linked Data at Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011

16/05/2011

As part of the Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011 a section will be held about Special track on Linked Data   The Web has moved into a global space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. The Web of Data grows continuously, and metadata expressed and ...

Meetings and Presentation at Cornell

13/05/2011

I started my  visit to various US Institutions yesterday with my arrival at Cornell in Ithaca. Discussion with John Ferreira on the RING -Future role of the RING. When providers register their service on the RING they should automatically geta wrapper that extracts Triples from their system to the Infrastructure. ...

Freely Accessible Documents about Open Access in Agriculture

13/05/2011

Established in 2003, E-LIS is an international Open Archive for Library and Information Science (LIS). Over 11,800 papers have been archived to date. It is freely accessible, aligned with the Open Access (OA) movement and is a voluntary enterprise. From conference papers to journal articles, manuals etc. covering several years of documentations ...

Launch of Institutional Repository seen as “Milestone in the access and diffusion of information on Africa”

10/05/2011

Addis Ababa, 02 May 2011 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched a unique Institutional Repository on Monday during a workshop on Open Access Publishing at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The development and launching of the ECA Institutional Repository marks a milestone in the access and diffusion of ...

EIFL-PLIP Call for Concept Papers

05/05/2011

This Call is about the replication of services from projects funded in the first round  of EIFL-PLIP. Applicants are invited to localize, develop and adapt services to their own environment. EIFL requests submission of concept papers from eligible public libraries by 30th June 2011. The best of these will be developed ...