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  • COAR Controlled Vocabularies: Improving consistency of repository metadata

    The 10th “International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research” (MTSR 2016)  also co-located four workshops, one of them dedicated to successful controlled vocabulary, namely the Controlled Vocabulary for Resource Type Genres version 1.1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________Controlled Vocabularies are one of the semantic glues that binds open access repositories and scholarly communication infrastructures together. They ...
  • Free Webinar: What can we learn from the Internet?

    Turing Award winner,  Bob Kahn was not only one of the inventors of Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), but also one of the driving forces within the internet community that created completely new opportunities, new technologies and new aspirations that we are all familiar with today.Join a unique webinar ...
  • OpenForis : Free Open-Source Solutions for Environmental Monitoring

    An FAO-led initiative OpenForis is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data producing, collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination in order to implement multi-purpose forest inventories and support environmental monitoring._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Forum on forests has been a priority on the international policy and political agendas ...
  • Open Access Network: be informed, join and take action

    The Open Access Network (OAN) is a transformative model of open access (OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners to support the creation and distribution of research, scholarship and affordable education.The OAN was launched in 2015 as a not-for-profit organization that ...