The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE have
announced a joint initiative to provide a customized version of DSpace using standards and controlled vocabularies
in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development,
fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences.
The
Hasselt University Library produced a customized version of DSpace called OceanDocs for the International Oceanographic
Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
of UNESCO (IOC) and adapted it to the standards of the
Oceanographic community. The OceanDocs Network, created in 2004,
now has some 50 members. The FAO customized
DSpace using the AGRIS
Application Profile (AP) and is developing a plug-in for the use of
controlled vocabularies for communities in food, agriculture,
development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences
such as AGROVOC. [more ]
The
communities supported by FAO
and UNESCO-IOC/IODE are
synergistic and the standards on metadata and controlled vocabularies
are similar for both. A common repository development is a logical
result. Hasselt University Library will create for FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE a new version called AgriOcean DSpace which will
be available from August 1, 2010. It will integrate the previous
developments of both Agencies in one customized version of DSpace.
The
communities of FAO
and
UNESCO-IOC/IODE active in oceanography
and food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural
resources and related sciences will provide a bespoke repository
software based on DSpace to
offer Open Access to the literature. They will use the same high
standards for metadata, thesauri and other ontologies ensuring advanced
access to the scientific publications in the field and the possibility
to create new services for their researchers.
The collaboration between FAO
and UNESCO-IOC/IODE has
the following goals:
- Promoting
open access to scientific information on the topics of food,
agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and
related sciences for FAO and oceanography and marine
sciences for UNESCO-IOC/IODE.
- Ensuring
the metadata quality of repositories and the use of thesauri and other
forms of authority control.
- Contributing
to the development of sustainable repositories by the use of tools to
make scientific publications (and later data) more accessible and
visible.
- Removing
access barriers by encouraging the creation of new service providers
based on existing and mature metadata and semantics technology.
AgriOcean
DSpace will be based on OceanDocs, a customization of DSpace, built
starting with version 1.3. It will integrate the alternative submission
module based on document type developed in version 1.4.2 . This version
already supported more refined metadata formats (AGRIS AP
and MODS)
and integrated the ASFA Thesaurus in the
submission module. Other features were a batch import module on browser
level for RIS and Bibtex files.
These developments will be ported to the latest version of DSpace 1.6, and
make use of new features, in the first place the authority control,
statistics and harvesting modules. The developments of FAO on AGRIS AP
and thesaurus integration will complete AgriOcean DSpace.
Finally an easy-to-install Windows-based version of AgriOcean DSpace will be
made available also from August 1 2010.
For more information, contact:
- FAO This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Hasselt University Library This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- IOC/IODE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Visit OceanDocs on http://www.oceandocs.net
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Created on: Monday, 26 July 2010 10:57
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