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New community home for DSpace and Fedora learning resources

08/02/2012

The DuraSpace organization announced the launch of the KnowledgeBase, a  new community home for DSpace and Fedora online learning resources.Training and educational resources for DSpace and Fedora usersThe dynamic organizational wiki structure of the KnowledgeBase is aimed at creating a comprehensive set of training and educational resources for DSpace ...

1st Meeting of the IODE Steering Group for OceanDocs

07/02/2012

Introduction and background OceanDocs started in 2004 as a project in the framework of OdinAfrica. In 2007 the OdinPubAfrica repository became OceanDocs, a repository for the IODE-related communities. Also some of the IODE partners were interested in setting-up their own repository. OceanDocs is now the repository network of UNESCO/IOC-IODE. The OceanDocs ...

AGROVOC Topic Map: a new web application

07/02/2012

The Humanities GIS Research Group, established in Japan in 2004, has developed a web application based on AGROVOC, called ‘AGROVOC topic map’. Graphic views of concept hierarchies This application includes browsing and search functionalities in all AGROVOC languages, and graphic views of the concept hierarchies (Vizigate). The system uses AGROVOC URIs, ...

New international standard for thesauri published

07/02/2012

ISO 25964-­1 is the new international standard for thesauri, replacing ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The full title is Information and documentation -­ Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -­ Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval. As well as covering monolingual and multilingual thesauri, it addresses 21st century needs for data sharing, networking ...

INASP's 20th anniversary symposium

06/02/2012

This year marks INASP's 20th anniversary (1992-2012). In celebration of two decades of work, INASP is hosting a Symposium entitled 'Research, Information and Development: These truths we hold to be self-evident...?'. The Symposium will drawing upon the expertise of INASP partners from around the world, exploring state of the ...