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AGROVOC as linked open data presented at the National Library of Norway

11/06/2012

Today Lisbeth Eriksen, senior librarian at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, held the seminar "Mapping to Dewey" at the National Library of Norway. A presentation on AGROVOC as linked open data and its mapping to the Dewey Decimal Classes (DDC). You can read the presentation online in Norwegian.

AGROVOC search temporarily unavailable!

11/06/2012

Please note that the AGROVOC search pages - Browse Hierarchies & Search Term - are temporarily unavailable. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Center for Development Communication organizes conference on Social Media

11/06/2012

The Center for Development Communication (CDC) is organizing the “Ready Conference” in Washington DC from July 23-25 2012 to help UN, World Bank and other practitioners to implement the social media side of an existing communication strategy. This three day hands-on conference will show you how to use key social media ...

New version of AGROVOC Field module for Drupal: automatic indexing

08/06/2012

The AgriDrupal team released a new version (v. 6.3) of the AgrovocField module for Drupal 6, now available at, http://drupal.org/project/agrovocfield. Powerful functionalities This new version has two powerful functionalities for the use of AGROVOC in an information system: Automatic indexing It allows users to let Drupal assign automatically ...

Argentina Making Law for Open Access

08/06/2012

According to the news item posted on Scidev.net, the Argentina's Chamber of Deputies passed a bill stating that all national scientific institutions must provide open access to the research archives and raw data with six months and five years embargo periods respectively and the law is under consideration by ...