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  • FAO Geopolitical Ontology in RDF-LOD version

    The FAO Country Profiles portal is embracing the W3C Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative and recently released its Geopolitical Ontology in RDF format, including reference data used to manage country-based information and relevant key resources. The portal is also exposing some data in RDFa, which improves search and reuse....
  • RING workplan 2011

    Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) __________________________________________________________________ Draft 2011 Workplan for the CIARD RING__________________________________________________________________ 1. Increasing the coverage The usefulness of the RING as an infrastructure for interoperability is proportional to the number and relevance of the information services / sources featured in the system.      Currently, 130 services and 109 providers are featured in the RING. ...
  • ''hita-hita'' - Institutional OA Advocacy in Japan - Report

    The term “hita-hita” was employed to signify something that penetrates gently and smoothly. As of 2011, a total of 760,000 research papers are accessible through IRs across Japan. Open Access (OA) is not politically forced at state level or institution level. Instead, a repository manager-level lateral solidarity has been built to share ...
  • Patched OAI-PMH module for Drupal

    We had to patch the existing OAI-PMH2 module for Drupal to achieve the following: implement the ListSets method and provide an admin ionterface to decide which categorization to use for sets. Provide the Set argument for the ListRecords method Customize the OAI identifier metadata element in order to comply with ...