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EIFL wins WSIS 2013 Project Prize for excellence

14/05/2013

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) was awarded a WSIS Project Prize for excellence in implementation of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) outcomes to achieve an inclusive and development-oriented information society. The award was presented by Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) during the opening ceremony ...

First plenary meeting of the SemaGrow project

13/05/2013

On Monday 13 and Thursday 16 May, the 1st plenary meeting of the SemaGrow project will be held in Rome at the University of Tor Vergata. SemaGrow envisages to develop the scalable, efficient, and robust data services needed to take full advantage of the data-intensive and inter-disciplinary Science of 2020 and to re-shape ...

Three libraries win EIFL-PLIP open government award

13/05/2013

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) is proud to announce the winners of their fourth Innovation Award – for library services that contribute to open government and e-government services. Congratulations to three public libraries: Šiauliai County ‘Povilas Visinkis’ Public Library in Lithuania for their e-government training programme which is creating ...

ICAR Starts Discussion 'Opening Access to Knowledge and Information in ICAR' on its Facebook Fan Page

13/05/2013

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had made its two flagship Journals Open Access few years back. This made the other scholarly reseach journals published by various societies in ICAR to follow the course and transformed their journals as Open Access Journals. Now the ICAR is in the process ...

First International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013)

10/05/2013

The first full-day International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013) will take place in conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISCW 2013), October, 21-25, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. The call for papers is now open Important dates are: Deadline for paper submission: Friday, 12 July 2013, 23:59 (Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 9 ...