AIMS

COAR-CASRAI webinar from July-07 2014

10/07/2014

A total of 15 participants from COAR, the COAR Interest Group on Controlled Vocabularies, AIMS and CARL joined the webinar about CASRAI on July 7, 2014. Kathleen Shearer and Jochen Schirrwagen briefly introduced the various COAR activities regarding repository interoperability and the interest group on controlled vocabularies. Then David Baker, Executive Director of ...

La Referencia integrated to intelligo

09/07/2014

LA Referencia has announced that it is now integrated to intelligo, a browser of large volumes of documents of Ibero-American repositories. This development allows users to experience a search path not only associated to final documents, but also to the deployment of concepts derived from several information sources and its ...

11 Case Studies Released on Research Data Management in Libraries

09/07/2014

In July 2012, LIBER’s E-Science working group released ‘Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management’. Since then, several libraries across Europe have started to build up or have expanded their capacities for research data management, typically combining e-infrastructure and support services. To further encourage libraries in ...

SemaGrow 2nd Hackathon

09/07/2014

The 2nd SemaGrow Hackathon took place between 4-7/7/2014 at the premises of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos, in Athens, Greece. It was organized by Agro-Know, as a partner of the SemaGrow project and collocated with the International Research-Centered Summer School in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Robotics, ...

Several PhD positions on Linked Data / Enterprise Information Integration at Uni Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS

08/07/2014

The Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) group at the University of Bonn and the Organized Knowledge department at Fraunhofer IAIS  are hiring PhD students. We will soon be starting several research projects on applying Linked Data technology to information integration in enterprises and other organisations. The ideal candidate holds an MS ...