| Current Projects |

Linked Open Data. LODE Recommendations for Bibliographic Data
The LODE-BD (LOD-Enabled Bibliographic Data) Recommendations assist bibliographic data providers in selecting appropriate encoding strategies according to their needs in order to facilitate metadata exchange by, for example, constructing crosswalks between their local data formats and widely-used formats or even with a Linked Data representation. [More information]

Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) Website
AIMS is a web portal managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It disseminates standards and good practices in information management for the support of the right to food, sustainable agriculture and rural development. [More information]

AgriOcean DSpace
It is a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE to provide a customized version of DSpace 1.7.1 (JSPUI version), an open source, digital repository software. Its main objective is to make scientific literature in the field of oceanography, agriculture and related sciences available in digital form. [More information]

The VEST Registry
Agricultural Information Management Registry of Vocabularies, mEtadata Sets and Tools (VEST Registry) is a catalog of controlled vocabularies, metadata sets and tools. [More information]

FAO Authority Description Concept Scheme
It aims is to provide more efficient management of the several multilingual forms of an entity through the use of URIs and the assignment of relationships between entities. [More information]

Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository (VOA3R)
Three-year Europen Project that aims to improve the spread of European agriculture and aquaculture research results by using an innovative approach to sharing open access research products. [More information]

E-LIS, E-prints for Library and Information Science
It is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. [More information]

CIEPI
It aims to analyze the current situation, trends and evolution of information, information techniques, processes, management, as well as the roles of information management specialists in the XXI Century. It is specifically addressed to open access to scholarly communication outputs, publishing, preservation of digital information, and standardization, evaluation and visibility of science with special regard to its social aspects. [More information]

IraLIS, International Register of Authors in Library and Information Science
Its aim is to create a register of authorities of the names of all of those authors who publish works related to librarianship, documentation and archiving. [More information]

| Past Projects |

Implementing the FAO Open Archive based on Fedora Commons, MODS and FRBR
The FAO Open Archive (OA) project is the merging of the content of the EIMS-CDR (document repository) and the FAODOC (library catalogue) to create one coherent digital repository offering a solid foundation for the collection, management, maintenance and timely dissemination of material published by FAO. The FAO OA model is based on FRBR and the software used is Fedora Commons. [More information]

DoIS, Documents in Information Science
It was a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in Information Science. DoIS was a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. DoIS was a volunteer effort to create a free bibliographic resource of scientific texts specialized in Information Science. [More information]

Peruvian Z101 Declaration
Open Access Declaration signed by information management specialists in Agriculture after the course Open Archives for Development held in Lima (Peru) in 2007. [More information]

Document repository and website management: an integrated solution in Bangladesh
Implementation of AgriDrupal at the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management in Bangladesh, with the objective of integrating in a single platform the document repository and web content management requirements. [More information]

RCLIS, Research in Computing, Library and Information Sciences
It was a project to build a database about all current and current and past research in computing and library and information science. [More information]

Grupo de investigación en e-consulting y aplicación de tecnología a la gestión de la información
Working group in e-consulting and technological application in information management. [More information]

ICOMOS Open Archive
Open access archive or thematic repository, specialized in the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, in ICOMOS and coordinated by its Documentation Centre. [More information]

Janus
It is the serials management tool designed for the library of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia. [More information]

Catalogue for the audio-visual materials of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona Opera House
The tools manages the audio-visual material stored in the documentation center. [More information]

Hipermapa
The Hipermapa (Electronic Atlas of Catalonia) is the corporate tool of the Government of Catalonia to present its geo-referenced information on the Internet in an integrated and systematic tool. It makes available to the public actions of the government, the main services, socioeconomic development and planning, while it allows to view all parts of the territory with its detailed reality. [More information]

The Image Bank
The tool manages the images produced and bought by the Departament of Policy and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia. [More information]

Radio program "The Library"
It was conducted for two seasons from the Radio City of Santa Maria de Palautordera to spread news about the Local Library Ferran Soldevila and news on literature. [More information]

Magazine "El Gargot"
It was published during three years from the Local Library Ferran Soldevila to disseminate news on literature, and suggestions and opinions of library users. [More information]

Last modified: January 2012