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  • Release plan for the FAO Open Archive and follow-up projects

    The new FAO Open Archive (FAO OA) is a digital repository that will manage all official FAO publications, integrating both cataloguing and electronic publishing workflows. It will replace the existing Electronic Information Management System (EIMS) and Corporate Document Repository (CDR) that have been in place now for over 10 years. As ...
  • Facebook Group 'Open Access India' Formed

    For creating more awareness on open access to publicly funded research in India, a facebook group 'Open Access India' is formed. This group would be a platform for advocating open access and sharing success stories of open access movement in the world and India. It invites anyone who is involved ...
  • Implementing the FAO Open Archive based on Fedora Commons and FRBR

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has more than 50 years of experience in the collection, production and diffusion of information on agriculture and related sciences. To facilitate access to FAO publications the Organization has implemented two document repositories: the FAO Online Catalogue (FAODOC) and the FAO ...
  • Kenya Open Data Portal

    Kenya Open Data Portal makes public government data acessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what's to come. The goal of opendata.go.ke is to make core government development, demographic, statistical and ...
  • 1st Meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization in Luxembourg

    On 15 June 2011, the 1st meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization, organized by the EU Publications Office, took place in Luxembourg. The Thesaurus Working Group is focusing on a meta-thesaurus project made of interlinked specialized thesauri articulated around EuroVoc, EU’s multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus, as the generic ...