In 2011, CIARD is addressing the topic of sharing and interoperability of data and information for agricultural research for development. There will be an international Expert Consultation in Beijing from 20 to 23 June 2011 with the title "Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing". An electronic consultation will be held from 4 ...

In February, DCMI and the FOAF Project agreed in principle to tighten the alignment between DCMI Metadata Terms and the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) Vocabulary specifications. FOAF and DCMI Metadata terms are often used together in applications, and both are consistently listed among the top ten vocabularies Linked Data ...

The new AGRIS 2.1 has been released. The major improvement of the new AGRIS version is the autocomplete widget, which provides suggestions when users type information into the search box. Terms suggested come from the AGROVOC thesaurus. Additionally, some bugs have been fixed: the Google map in the result page now ...

The LODE Recommendations v.1.0 is ready to be distributed among a selected group of external advisors for feedback. The call for comments is open until the end of April when the LODE Recommendations v. 1.0 will be published on AIMS as an e-handbook based on all the feedback received. Any comments ...

Date: 10th March 2011Attendants: Imma Subirats & Iryna KuchmaObjective: to discuss possible lines of cooperation between OEKCS and eIFL with regard to open acces activitiesOutputs:1.) Iryna Kuchma presented the project Open Repository Handbook carried out by eIFL and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) .  The Open Repository Handbook should be an online ...