The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Schema.org Alignment Task Group held its first teleconference on 12 December to discuss a proposed mapping of DCMI metadata terms to terms in the Schema.org vocabulary. The teleconference report is available and highlights different potential uses for published mappings: as a social signal that ...

DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the world’s scholarly, scientific and cultural records, announced at the beginning of November 2011 the launch of its managed cloud service, DuraCloud. DuraCloud is a free open-source project and fee-based subscription service, and is available to any organization wishing to archive and preserve ...

OpenAIREplus (2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) was launched in Pisa in early December. The 30 month project, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme, will work in tandem with OpenAIRE, extending the mission further to facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the ...

Message from third Publishers for Development conference Publishers need to coordinate support across their editorial, IT, sales, and marketing teams – and ultimately at board level – to help ensure that developing country researchers are included in the research cycle. This was the main message emerging from the third annual Publishers for ...

The 10th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition gives a focus on TECA, Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers, and in particular on its knowledge base which gives access to hundreds of applied and easy to replicate technologies and practices in about 80 countries. The ...