AIMS

Upcoming RDA Second Plenary Meeting: register today!

06/08/2013

Data sharing offers important benefits for scientific progress, but is not yet very easy among scholars. In order to overcome this barrier, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was set-up in 2012. The aim: accelerating and facilitating research data sharing and exchange across different research groups. Coming up this September is the ...

E-learning course on social media & web 2.0 by FAO & UNITAR

05/08/2013

Social Media for development - Why is it important? "It's important to communicate with people in the language they speak, on the platform they use." (Jim Rosenberg, Head Online Communication & Social Media, the World Bank) The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and FAO collaborated to hold the ...

Links to the Web sites mentioned in LODE-BD Webinar

31/07/2013

At the LODE-BD Webinar today, I mentioned some useful sources for locating LOD datasets, vocabularies, properties, and examples of bibliographic data. Here are the links to some of them.  1. Where to find available LOD datasets: The Data Hub:  http://datahub.io/ (check under certain groups, such as "Bibliographic Data", "Library ...

Invitation to take FAO Country Profiles' User survey

31/07/2013

FAO Country Profiles (FCP) is the pioneering information retrieval tool which groups FAO's vast archive of information on its global activities in agriculture and development in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country. What is your experience with and what do you expect from the FAO Country Profiles ...

Beyond Access launches new website

31/07/2013

Beyond Access — the movement of people and organizations committed to the idea that modern public libraries help drive economic and social development — launched its new mobile-friendly website at http://beyondaccess.net/ in English and Spanish. "Development demands access to information and technology, support to use it, and physical spaces to ...