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  • [New Publication] From AGROVOC OWL Model towards AGROVOC SKOS Model

      AGROVOC is a multilingual structured thesaurus for the agricultural domain, which is owned and maintained by an international community of Agricultural Research Information Institutions. AGROVOC is used all over the world by researchers, librarians, information managers and others, for indexing, retrieving, and organizing data in Agricultural Information Systems. It currently ...
  • CIARD Draft Communication Plan

    Dear colleagues, Last year, our partners Scriptoria worked with us to develop a communication strategy for CIARD, which formed the basis of the activities which we undertook in 2009 and early 2010.  At the partners meeting at Montpellier in April, we discussed our approaches to communicating the messages around the CIARD initiative, ...
  • Material for planning purposes

    I just collected and assembled all material regarding AGRIS2010 in a shared folder. The address is \\kcew118\GILWS-Library\Agris_2010. This is the basis for the development of the product  F06G!1302
  • Data.gov has just announced the publication of one of the largest Data Sets

    "Data.gov now hosts a set of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents containing triples created by converting a number of the Data.gov Data Sets into this format, making over 6.4 billion triples of open government data available to the community." http://www.data.gov/semantic/data/alpha This time.. triples ...
  • FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE combine efforts in their support of Open Access

    The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE have announced a joint initiative to provide a customized version of DSpace using standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences. The Hasselt University Library produced a customized version of DSpace ...