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"Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web" hosted by the BBC

03/04/2012

The BBC hosted last wednesday, March 28, the event Libraries, Media and the Semantic Web. Journalists, archivists and software developers came together at the BBC Academy in London to hear what some of the major players in this field had to say about the concept of a semantic web. Speakers On ...

Public library initiator of change

02/04/2012

The EIFL-PLIP (Public Library Innovation Programme) published on its website a story on how the villagers of Glavinci in Central Serbia managed to obtain, with the help of their library, high speed internet for the whole village. AgroLib-Ja: free internet & online farm market The Glavinci village library is part of ...

EMBRAPA (Infoteca) data in AGRIS

30/03/2012

EMBRAPA and AGRIS Details: Metadata format: MODS (METS) Range: 2000-2012 METS XML Schema: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd More than 16,000 records are harvested and stored at \\oek019\Harvester\OLD_data\EMBRAPA - Infoteca

New informative page on OpenAGRIS on AIMS

30/03/2012

A new informative page on OpenAGRIS is now available on the AIMS website, please see: aims.fao.org/openagris OpenAGRIS: enriching AGRIS The OpenAGRIS project started in 2011 with the objective of enriching the content of the AGRIS repository, a bibliographic data repository in the agricultural domain with more than 2.7 million ...

Bibliographic Data and Cataloging Products

29/03/2012

You are invited and encouraged to participate in a survey studying the value and use of Library of Congress’ bibliographic data and cataloging products.  The Library will use survey results as part of a strategic study to guide its response to this changing environment, supporting the Library in its goal ...