AIMS

Getty Vocabularies and Linked Open Data

28/03/2014

Getty Vocabualries are are structured vocabularies that comply with national and international standards for thesaurus construction. Getty Vocabularies includes the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) and Union List of Artist Names (ULAN). There is a plan to publish these ...

New Webinar@AIMS: “Islandora: Managing digital assets with a best-practices framework"

27/03/2014

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Islandora: Managing digital assets with a best-practices framework". The webinar will present Islandora and its portfolio to support institutions and organizations to manage and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Islandora is an open-source software framework that is contributed to ...

Presentation of the Datalift project

27/03/2014

[Text as presented on Project site] Datalift brings raw structured data coming from various formats (relational databases, CSV, XML, ...) to semantic data interlinked on the Web of Data. Datalift is an experimental research project funded by the French national research agency. Its goal is to develop a platform to publish ...

A short Interview with Kerry Albright on Agro-Know

27/03/2014

Kerry Albright is a Senior Agricultural Research Analyst at the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. In this interview with Agro-Know, Kerry retraces the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. GODAN was conceived as a concept after the G8 International Conference on Open Data ...

Using Google Search Appliance (GSA) to Search Digital Library Collections: A Case Study of the INIS Collection Search

20/03/2014

In February 2014, I gave a presentation at the conference on Faster, Smarter and Richer: Reshaping the library catalogue (FSR 2014), which was organized by the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB) and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome, Italy. My presentation focused on the experience of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) in using ...