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FAO Country Profiles Newsletter No. 10

15/12/2011

The 10th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition gives a focus on TECA, Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers, and in particular on its knowledge base which gives access to hundreds of applied and easy to replicate technologies and practices in about 80 countries. The ...

IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group: Call for Papers

14/12/2011

The IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group in association with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) invites papers for presentation at IFLA General Conference, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012.  Theme Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective Social networking is a hackneyed  phrase. It ...

The Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network (ZAR4DIN) uses Agricultural Information Management standards and AgriDrupal

13/12/2011

The Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network (ZAR4DIN) project was launched in 2010, with the main goal of facilitating access to Institutional repositories of Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) information resources through a national AR4D portal. The project was funded by the Forum for Agricultural Research in ...

VocBench 1.3 released!

12/12/2011

The OEKCS team at FAO with the assistance of MIMOS Berhad in Malaysia have released VocBench Version 1.3, a powerful open-source ontology editor and workflow manager.   This version consolidates a number of critical usability fixes identified during trials with an exciting new international, multi-lingual, globally-dispersed user group. This new group of ...

WIPO: Progress made on global set of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives

12/12/2011

The 23rd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rightsended on 2nd December 2011.  WIPO Member States made significant progress towards achieving a global set of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. This is welcomed by the: International Federation of Library Associations and ...