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Land Portal Pioneers Linked Open Data for Land Governance

11/12/2014

On the 10th of December 2014, 'the Land Portal launched an innovative and collaborative Open Data platform that combines data about land issues from diverse and credible sources around the world, enabling easy data exploration, manipulation and customization.Land rights fundamentally underpin economic, social and environmental sustainability, yet land governance in ...

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Production Release- Not Your Dad's Fedora

05/12/2014

Press Release - December 4, 2014Contact: David WilcoxGroundbreaking new capabilities make Fedora 4 the repository platform of choice for right now and into the future. Winchester, MA The international Fedora repository community and DuraSpace are very pleased to announce the production release of Fedora 4. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an ...

The European Library releases over 82 million bibliographic records - all CC0

04/12/2014

The European Library announced that it released Linked Open Data for over 82 million bibliographic records all CC0. This data comes from over 25 data providers from 22 countries amounting to 127 collections. The datasets can be downloaded from the European Library downloads page.The files are organized by dataset, and are provided in ...

A pan-European Open Scholarship Initiative

03/12/2014

PRESS RELEASE50 partners, from all EU countries, and beyond, will collaborate to work on this large-scale initiative that aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data. The initiative brings together professionals from research libraries, open scholarship organisations, national e-Infrastructure and data ...

ANN: datos.bne.es, the new Linked Data service from the National Library of Spain

03/12/2014

The National Library of Spain (BNE) and the Ontology Engineering Group are glad to announce the new datos.bne.es Linked Data service (in Spanish). This new service represents a milestone of the Linked Data project started by the end of 2011 and that already published Linked Open Data under a ...