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Perception and Relevance of Controlled Vocabulary Quality Issues

03/10/2012

The University of Vienna (Research Group Multimedia Information Systems) and the Semantic Web Company are conducting a survey on "Perception andRelevance of Controlled Vocabulary Quality Issues". The survey is aimed at practitioners who are using or who are planning to use controlled vocabularies in their organisation. The questionnaire is available ...

'Agricultural Information Worldwide': official IAALD Journal

03/10/2012

Agricultural Information Worldwide (AgInfo) is the official journal of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). Browse the AgInfo Archives. AgInfo is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and information on information management in the fields of agriculture, natural resources and the environment. The journal is abstracted and indexed ...

14th International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) World Congress: Call for Proposals

02/10/2012

The 14th IAALD World Congress is going to take place at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY from July 22-24, 2013. The call for proposals for papers, posters and interactive workshops is now open. Theme this years is  "Emerging Priorities for Scientific and Agricultural Information". Proposals for papers, posters and interactive workshops ...

New quality indicators for young (open access) journals discussed

01/10/2012

On October 22 and 23 research funders, editors-in-chief of prestigious academic journals, and publishers will come togetherin Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to discuss and test New quality indicators for young (open access) journals.This high level expert colloquium will take place during Open Access Week 2012 . Initiative to establish indicators of quality For young , ...

Fedora Repository Futures: Towards an Evolutionary Development Roadmap

27/09/2012

FedoraCommons is set for a number of improvements and developments in the near future. This comes as an expression of commitment by the Fedora community members to refresh the product's vision and to produce an evolutionary short and mid-term roadmap for FedoraCommons. FedoraCommons stakeholders also established a common ground on ...