AIMS

General Planning Material

27/01/2012

I will put all the general planning material for this PWB at http://aims.fao.org/community/oekcs-community/pages/00-pwb-2012-13

Second set of RDA vocabularies published as linked open data

27/01/2012

A second set of RDA (Resource Description and Access) vocabulary terms is published as linked open data. All the published RDA vocabularies can be viewed in the Open Metadata Registry(OMR). This was announced by the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, the DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Groupand ALA ...

AGRIS Minutes (wrap-up from meetings 2012/01/17 - 2012/01/27)

27/01/2012

DOAJ issues -- duplicates because they also harvest Scielo -- their schema is custom (but we already have an conversion XSL) recommendation -- harvest, convert and dedupe (approx. 100k records) as a one-off (do not build a configurable multi-use de-duping component) -- Use Sweden (DOAJ is there) for provenance in ...

How to make your repository OpenAIRE compliant

27/01/2012

Free online workshops were held on how to make your repository OpenAIRE compliant. View the recordings of the sessions and download the slides at www.openaire.eu Topics discussed DSpace repository plaform EPrints repository platform Proprietary plaform Support the implementation of Open Access in Europe OpenAIRE provides the means to ...

Why availability of online journals in sub-Saharan Africa has not yet translated into high levels of use?

26/01/2012

With all the research that is now available online, why are academics still saying that they don’t have access to journals? This was the starting question of a research project initiated by ACU in east and southern Africa. Four campus case studies later the report "Growing Knowledge: Access to ...