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MTSR 2013 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference - Call for Papers

21/02/2013

MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (November 19-22, 2013) Motivation Continuing the successful mission of previous MTSR Conferences (MTSR'05, MTSR'07, MTSR'09, MTSR'10, MTSR'11 and MTSR’12), the seventh International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'13) aims to bring together scholars and practitioners that share a common interest in the interdisciplinary ...

W3C Workshop, Call for Participation Making the Multilingual Web Work (12 – 13 March 2013, Rome)

21/02/2013

The MultilingualWeb community develops and promotes best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards for dealing with language on the Internet and on identifying and resolving gaps ...

Five public library services improve farmers’ lives

19/02/2013

Public libraries are effective rural economic development partners, according to newly-released impact assessment results of five innovative public library services. The results, released by EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP), reflect outcomes of successful implementation of public library agricultural services in Europe and Latin America. (Women farmers in Colombia ...

Open Call to Innovators: Apply to present at G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture

19/02/2013

G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agricuture Washington, D.C. - April 29-30, 2013 At the 2012 G-8 Summit, G-8 leaders committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the next phase of a shared commitment to achieving global food security. As part of this commitment, they agreed to “...

Core Public Service Vocabulary released for public review

12/02/2013

Core Public Service Vocabulary released for public review The Core Public Service Vocabulary has entered in public review period. Anyone interested is invited to provide feedback until 27 February 2013 (inclusive). In December 2012, the ISA Programme launched the Core Public Service Vocabulary (CPSV) initiative as part of Action 1.1 on improving semantic interoperability ...