EIFL is looking for interesting and inspiring photographs to help promote awareness of and share ideas for Open Access Week. Please send photographs of activities that took place at your library during OA week 2011, October 24 – 30, 2011by contacting Iryna Kuchma ([email protected]) . Here’s how it works… Submit up ...

This year the 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment was hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011 bringing together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It was organized by ...

This module provides an implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) for Drupal with support for CCK content types and their fields to expose content (metadata) and be accessible by OAI harvesters. For further OAI documentation, please see here: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ...

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme(PLIP) supports libraries to implement community development projects. In May 2010 PLIP supported with a grant the ‘Communicating Farmers’ service of the Panguipulli Public Library in Chile. Already after one year, the project booked remarkable results. Farmers were not coming to the library The Roads ...

The DSpace community is currently holding a survey on how best to improve metadata support in the DSpace software. The goal of the survey is to clarify and build a consensus on what the priority and focus should be for future metadata improvements. While the survey is targeted at DSpace ...