AIMS

Linking digital cultural heritage with agri-food research

25/06/2015

Linking digital cultural heritage with Europeana is one of the largest endeavours around the world (as is the Digital Public Library of America) to make the rich and diverse cultural heritage of European countries available online. Working for more than 6 years with this goal (from the times of the European ...

Text and data mining (TDM) in agri-food research

23/06/2015

A wealth of published research outputs are publicly available ( thanks to active Open Access initiatives and mandates that keep finding ways to open up even more research data). However, researchers are still facing a challenge when searching for specific elements of a research publication in order to support their own ...

Which DuraSpace Repository Platform or Cloud Service is Right for Me?

15/06/2015

Two new, simple comparison tables are available at DuraSpace.org to help you think through selecting a repository platform or a cloud service that will work for your institution or organization from among DuraSpace project and service offerings.What's the Right Repository for Me compares the DSpace repository application, the ...

Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture, Kenya

11/06/2015

The Kenya Agricultural and Information Network (KAINet) partner institutions Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Ministry of Agriculture (MoA-AIRC), Kenya Forestry and Research Institute (KEFRI) and Jomo Kenya University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO),  is pleased to announce ...

Independent consultants sought for IMLS-project webinar series

10/06/2015

As circulated on DC-mailing listWe are currently working on a 3-year IMLS grant project (2014-2017), "Building a Workforce of Next Generation Librarians for 21st Century Global Information Access." The ultimate goal of the project is to enhance the skills and knowledge of cataloging and metadata librarians by ensuring effective self-directed ...