One of the issues tackled within VOA3R is the way to represent research entities and stakeholders (such as People, Projects, Institutions and Funding Agencies) using some interoperable and commonly accepted specification or standard. In the context of VOA3R, the partners experimented with an implementation of the Common European ...

In order to provide an aggregated view on the research content coming from various collections, VOA3R is trying to ingest in a harmonised manner the metadata that various content providers use. A main obstacle in this effort is the fact that the various providers use different metadata specifications/standards (...

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine contains an interesting article on "Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository" by Chenying Li, Mingjie Han, Chongyang Hong, Yan Wang, Yanqing Xu, and Chunning Cheng at the China Agricultural University Library. Abstract Institutional Repositories (IRs) are becoming important library resources, and increasing utilization of ...

The VOA3R platform aims to provide an online social networking platform that will use metadata and semantics technology to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated service for open sharing and retrieval of research content and data. It will allow users to express their research activities using explicit models of the ...

A Joint EFITA/VOA3R Workshop on Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repositories took place on July 13th in conjunction with the Joint Congress of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA 2011) and the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture (WCCA 2011) that took place in in Prague, Czech Republic. ...