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The Development and Management of E-repositories course site is now online

29/04/2013

The Development and Management of E-repositories course is now available online on the Ocean Teacher platform.The course addresses the expertise and resources required to establish and manage sustainable repositories and the course topics were reviewed here. The AgriOcean DSpace component The AgriOcean DSpace component covers the materials on how ...

Evaluation of the VOA3R platform : a consultation is now launched

29/04/2013

A consultation to evaluate the VOA3R platform has been launched. You are invited to fill the questionnaire to help us to improve this major VOA3R outcome. The survey  questionnaire is available: English  French The VOA3R project comes to an end and your feedback is important for evaluating ...

VocBench sandbox: Search module temporarily not functioning

29/04/2013

Please be informed that the search module in VocBench sandbox is temporarily not functioning. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The AGROVOC/VocBench Team

Submit your paper to the "Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures"

26/04/2013

Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference November 19-22, 2013 Aim and Scope The sharing and re-use of research information is becoming an increasingly important aspect of scientific activity. Text publications are – and will be at least ...

CIRAD confirms its support of the principle of open access to knowledge

26/04/2013

This week CIARD informed on its website the news that the Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) has signed a partnership agreement to foster open archives. CIRAD is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues. The ...