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NISO releases draft Open Access Metadata and Indicators

07/01/2014

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched a draft 'Open Access Metadata and Indicators' this January, which are open for comments unti February the 4th. The objective of these indicators it to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as ...

Call for Papers Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group, IFLA 2014

06/01/2014

Papers are invited to be presented at the 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Lyon, France in August 2014 on the theme Role of Information Literacy in Agricultural Productivity and Food security: An International Perspective. Focus Information is a productive resource like land, labor, and capital. Agriculture includes a variety of ...

1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability: Overview

23/12/2013

The 1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability is now over. It consisted of four (4) sessions which took place between 6 and 20 of December 2013 and was co-organized by Bioversity International, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agro-Know Technologies and supported by the agINFRA EU project.  The aim of ...

Webinar on the use of Linked Data and Semantic Technologies in a Big Data context

19/12/2013

Today EUCLID - a European project facilitating professional training for data practitioners, who aim to use Linked Data in their daily work - organized a webinar on the use of Linked Data and Semantic Technologies in a Big Data context. You will be able to watch the recordings at the ...

DSpace 4.0 Released

18/12/2013

DSpace 4.0 is now available and can be downloaded from the following  locations:- Sourceforge GitHub You can also log on to the demo site and have a feel of the release for the three applications, XMLUI, JSPUI and XMLUI Mobile. New features and improvements [new] REST API module based on ...