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AGRIS LOD, AGROVOC LOD and related services will be temporarily unavailable

30/05/2014

The following services will be temporarily unavailable during this weeked (from Friday [30 May] 12 PM CET time to 01 June 2014): AGRIS VocBench MySQL (related to VocBench) Allegrograph (AGROVOC LOD, AGRIS LOD) ASFA LOD Our research partner MIMOS ,who provides the infrastructure hosting to our Linked Data services, will be conducting a technical ...

Call for Papers Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data

27/05/2014

  Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures Part of the 8th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2014) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany, November 27-29, 2014) http://www.mtsr-conf.org/ AIM AND SCOPE The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly ...

Webinar on "Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"

26/05/2014

We are please to invite you to take part in the webinar on "Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!" that will take place on 5th June at 11:00-12:00 (CEST) and also at 16:00-17:00 (CEST). This webinar is part of the activities related to the Pathway ...

OpenAIRE-COAR 2014 Conference debrief

26/05/2014

Myself and my colleague Vassilis Protonotarios attended (representing Agro-Know) the recently held OpenAIRE-COAR 2014 conference held under the theme Open Access Movement to Reality : Putting the Pieces Together. The conference was organised by OpenAIRE project and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). In summary, the event focused on open access ...

More than 3,000 repositories in BASE

20/05/2014

BASE has announced that it has reached two milestones and (i)now indexes more than 60,000,000 OAI-records from (ii) more than 3,000 repositories worldwide. This figure comes as a result of 250 new repositories indexed in 2014 indicating the importance of repositories. This increase makes BASE now one of the largest academic search engines ...