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EARTh: An Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus in the Linked Open Data cloud

31/10/2012

A recent article entitled 'EARTh: An Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus in the Linked Open Data cloud', published in the Semantic Web Journal describes how the Environment Application Reference Thesaurus (EARTh) was published as linked open data. This paper reviews the main characteristics of the EARTh thesaurus and details its semantic ...

Définition de l’open access par la commission européenne

31/10/2012

La Commission Européenne récidive avec un document de 5 pages très pédagogique, qui définit l’open access Open access can be defined as the practice of providing on-line access to scientific information that is free of charge to the reader. In the context of R&D, ...

The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP)

30/10/2012

TAP facilitates more effective and streamlined capacity development interventions in innovation systems in tropical agriculture. TAP was created to focus specifically on capacity development in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), more than 90% of which are located at least partly within the Tropics. TAP provides a mechanism for all actors to ...

A review of the Webinar 'The features and updates of Fedora 3.6'

30/10/2012

The webinar entitled ‘the features and updates of Fedora 3.6’ presented by Edwin Shin, at ‘the DuraSpace Community Webinar Series’ is now available. This webinar presentation talks about the recent developments to FedoraCommons and further gives a foreglimpse of the future updates to the software. Access to the recorded webinar   Fedora 3.6 ...

The session on 'Promotion of Open Access' now online

30/10/2012

During the fifth webinar of the Open Access Week@AIMS on Thursday Stefano Anibaldi, Peter Hessels and Sridhar Gutam presented their experiences on how to promote Open Access in different parts of the world. Stefano Anibaldi started with the presentation about AGRIS and followed by Peter Hessels who introduced the ...