"Z39.2/MARC are no longer fit for the purpose" The Library of Congress(LC) released for dissemination, sharing, and feedback the initial plan for a new Bibliographic Framework that will serve the library community and related communities well into the fuure. LC developed the plan in collaboration with librarians, standards ...
EIFL’s PLIP commissioned perception study
EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) commissioned a research study conducted by TNS RMS East Africa that explored perceptions of public libraries in Africa among different stakeholders, including people who use libraries and people who do not; government decision-makers, librarians and library officials. ...
A three-day workshop on "AGROVOC management and applications, and use of VocBench" for AGROVOC managers and editors from the South and Southeast Asian region, was held from 12-14 October 2011 at ICRISAT in Patancheru, India. The workshop, jointly organized by FAO and ICRISAT, had the objective of introducing and promoting the ...
UNESCO is contributing towards the capacity development plan for Open Access in Lesotho, within the framework of its action to support the development strategies for using ICT in knowledge acquisition and sharing, with a particular focus on access to scientific knowledge. International Open Access Week is to be celebrated in ...
The Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories & Infrastructures, hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011 , is an international discussion forum to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on open access repositories and data management in research infrastructures. The track served as a discussion forum for experts to present ...
