AIMS

Research Data Alliance Third Plenary Meeting

09/01/2014

The Data Sharing Community: Playing YOUR part Data is the very foundation of research, and each year the quantity and velocity of data produced increases. Sharing of research data has the potential to revolutionise the way research is conducted, accelerating discovery and improving society; but sharing research data globally is ...

Linked Open Data : A Use Case in the Agricultural Domain

09/01/2014

In the Linked Open Data paradigm, institutional repositories have the opportunity to enhance shareability, extensibility, and re-usability of their data by ensuring: content stable, discoverable, and readable data by both machines and humans use of appropriate well established metadata standards and emerging Linked Open Data enabled vocabularies use of controlled ...

NISO releases draft Open Access Metadata and Indicators

07/01/2014

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched a draft 'Open Access Metadata and Indicators' this January, which are open for comments unti February the 4th. The objective of these indicators it to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as ...

Call for Papers Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group, IFLA 2014

06/01/2014

Papers are invited to be presented at the 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Lyon, France in August 2014 on the theme Role of Information Literacy in Agricultural Productivity and Food security: An International Perspective. Focus Information is a productive resource like land, labor, and capital. Agriculture includes a variety of ...

1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability: Overview

23/12/2013

The 1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability is now over. It consisted of four (4) sessions which took place between 6 and 20 of December 2013 and was co-organized by Bioversity International, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agro-Know Technologies and supported by the agINFRA EU project.  The aim of ...