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e-Learning Course on Social Media Tools - Register Now!

30/07/2010

In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are developing the course Innovative Collaboration for Development, an e-learning course on social media tools. The course focuses on capacitating development ...

Mapping AgriDrupal Metadata Set to MODS and AGRIS AP

29/07/2010

We are informing you that the mapping of the current Metadata Set used in AgriDrupal to MODS and AGRIS AP is available on the AgriDrupal Community attached to this forum post. Any comment/suggestion to the mapping is welcomed!

RDA: Resource Description & Access Toolkit free open access until August 31, 2010

28/07/2010

RDA: Resource Description & Access Toolkit URL: http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ Enjoy Free Open Access to the RDA Toolkit through August 31, 2010 The resource to help you navigate from AACR2 to RDA—the new, unified standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata ...

Towards an Agrovoc-Drupal release

26/07/2010

Hi everyone, in latest days I’ve created a local Drupal instance to begin developing an agrovoc-Drupal alpha release. I think that subsequent steps are the right way and should be performed: Define a CCK content type suitable for an Agrovoc node (initially only for the EN instance; other languages ...

[Publication]Open Access to Knowledge and Information:Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives-The South Asian Scenario

26/07/2010

Universal access to information and knowledge lies UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the doorsteps of communities. UNESCO strives to forge an enabling environment to facilitate and open up avenues for universal access ...