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Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data

27/11/2014

DLib recently published an interesting usecase from the German National Library of Economics, where the article described an approach to publishing metadata on the Semantic Web from an Open Access repository (EconStor Repository) to foster interoperability with distributed data. Two movements led to the application of Semantic Web principles to ...

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT : Open Engineer Position available in Montepellier (Web developer/Semantic Web/BioPortal)

26/11/2014

The SIFR project  investigates the scientific and technical challenges in building ontology-based services to leverage biomedical ontologies and terminologies in indexing, mining and retrieval of (French) biomedical data.The project is seeking an experienced Web developer to take hands on the different prototypes developed within the project and to setup ...

New case statement up for comment: Repository Platforms for Research Data

25/11/2014

The Research Data Alliance Repository Pltaforms for Research Data Working group will gather analyse research data use cases in the context of repository requirements. The primary deliverable will be a matrix relating use cases with functional requirements for repository platforms.  The primary target audience for the aforementioned matrix consists of ...

ANN: VB 2.2.1 release: a few bugfixes and full compatibility with (any version of) GraphDB!

24/11/2014

Dear VocBenchers,a quick update to the recent 2.2 !This 2.2.1 update includes a few bugfixes and a big improvement: full compatibility with GraphDB (formerly OWLIM), any version.Actually, the compatibility is extended to all those sesame compliant triplestores which, contrarily from Sesame internal stores, do not duplicate triples in the inferred ...

Sponsorship Information: Open Repositories 2015

21/11/2014

Reach leaders in repository management and development, open access and data curation, and digital preservation by sponsoring Open Repositories 2015Sponsorship opportunities are now available for the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2015). The event will take place from June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis....