AIMS

VOA3R’s vision depicted and described

29/11/2011

The Vision of the VOA3R project is now depicted by the VOA3R Vision map and described in the living document ‘White Paper on Vision’. The map and document reflect all the outcomes of the interactive session that took place during VOA3R's Kick-Off Meeting (2010, Athens) in which all ...

Asset Description Metadata Schema

28/11/2011

The Asset Description Metadata Schema - why? Public administrations, businesses, standardisation bodies and academia are already producing semantic interoperability assets that, if (re)used, can facilitate semantic interoperability. However, these are not always easy to find. The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a common way to describe semantic interoperability ...

Report on 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop

25/11/2011

The 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop took place from September 28-29, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, as part of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011, formerly ECDL).  The workshop was attended by 35 colleagues from 17 countries on 4 continents. All presentations and abstracts are available ...

And the 14 winners of EIFL´s PLIP replication grant are...

24/11/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) announced a week ago the names of the 14 winners of their replication grants.  Using ICT in innovative ways  The 14 new services meet community development needs in the areas of agriculture, health, children and youth at risk and employment. They form part of EIFL-PLIP’...

EIFL-PLIP announces five new public library services for farmers

24/11/2011

ICT to improve farmers’ lives  Webinars, smart phones, an Internet-enabled library on wheels – public libraries are using a variety of cutting edge ICT to improve flows of vital information to farmers, to connect farmers to support agencies and to each other, and to enable farmers to apply for government grants ...