New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a new series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library associations and library schools working with new professionals, and groups by and for librarians.
The free webinars are presented by IFLA Continuing Professional ...
DC-2012 will take place in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo) from 3 through 7 September 2012 and will be part of the collocated activities of "Knowledge Technology Week 2012".
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DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. ...
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 ...
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