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The ORBi Experience: University of Liege repository

03/12/2013

The Open Repository and Bibliography (ORBi) repository is celebrated as one of the successful models of Open Access green route where policy frameworks coupled with other institutional support structures are essential to the increase of article deposits. The decision to build an institutional repository at the University of Liège ...

AGRIS 2.0 released!

02/12/2013

The AGRIS team is happy to announce the release of AGRIS 2.0! A merge between the AGRIS system and OpenAGRIS, featuring a new look and feel. The new AGRIS is a mash-up web application that links the bibliographic AGRIS knowledge to related  resources on the Web using the Linked Open Data ...

iMarine develops top-level ontology for the marine domain

02/12/2013

“How can users experience iMarine as one coherent source of facts about marine entities, rather than a bag of contributed contents?” (*) In answer to this question, the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH-ICS developed − for the iMarine project − a top-level ontology for the marine domain. Access the latest version: MarineTLO – ...

Agricultural information & documentation centres in sub-Saharan Africa : A survey

02/12/2013

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD Africa Chapter), is conducting a survey of agricultural information centres, libraries and documentation centre in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...

Vacancy announcement: Technical person with expertise in Drupal and Open Data for the Landportal.info

29/11/2013

Land Portal team is seeking a multi-skilled technical lead to manage the transition of the website from it’s first version as a Drupal 6, to it’s future as an Open Data and Linked Data driven platform, based on Drupal 7, CKAN (data catalogue) and Virtuoso (Linked Data triple store). She/...