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  • Facebook Group 'Open Access India' Formed

    For creating more awareness on open access to publicly funded research in India, a facebook group 'Open Access India' is formed. This group would be a platform for advocating open access and sharing success stories of open access movement in the world and India. It invites anyone who is involved ...
  • Implementing the FAO Open Archive based on Fedora Commons and FRBR

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has more than 50 years of experience in the collection, production and diffusion of information on agriculture and related sciences. To facilitate access to FAO publications the Organization has implemented two document repositories: the FAO Online Catalogue (FAODOC) and the FAO ...
  • Kenya Open Data Portal

    Kenya Open Data Portal makes public government data acessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what's to come. The goal of opendata.go.ke is to make core government development, demographic, statistical and ...
  • 1st Meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization in Luxembourg

    On 15 June 2011, the 1st meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization, organized by the EU Publications Office, took place in Luxembourg. The Thesaurus Working Group is focusing on a meta-thesaurus project made of interlinked specialized thesauri articulated around EuroVoc, EU’s multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus, as the generic ...
  • AGROVOC linked to 10 new datasets

    AGROVOC is now part of the Linked Open Data(LOD) project, with mappings to 10 data resources: EUROVOC, NALT, GEMET, RAMEAU, LCSH, STW, TheSoz, DBpedia, Geopolitical Ontology, and Dewey Decimal Classification. In numbers: AGROVOC has now 21,000 outlinks and 3,000 inlinks.