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28/06/2011
The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group has been chartered from May 2010 through August 2011 to prepare a series of reports on the existing and potential use of Linked Data technology for publishing library data. The group is currently preparing: A report which consists of "Benefits", "Vocabularies and Datasets", "Relevant ...
25/06/2011
In a presentation given at Mann Library in May 2011, FAO’s Dr. Johannes Keizer reviews some of the work of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. This includes collaborating with numerous international organizations to ...
25/06/2011
The FAO AIMS team presented the projects AgriDrupal and AgriOcean DSpace at the 6th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, the international gathering for a community of stakeholders engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories. Open Repositories 2011 was held in Austin, USA on 6-12 June. More information about ...
23/06/2011
The FAO Country Profiles team made a presentation on Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011), the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. The presentation described how users benefit from a Linked Open Data (LOD) ...
23/06/2011
The Open Access (OA) Map , launched today during the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), displays the locations of all types of OA-related initiatives, including funding policies, government documents, university mandates and so on. Much of this information already exists but it is scattered across domains. The Map ...

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