Open Access Repositories session at 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

Use the link to access more information about the special track on repositories as well as the paper and presentation described in the following blog post: "The AIMS team participated in the Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures of the 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) in Cádiz (Spain) last November 2012 and presented the paper: 'Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences from FAO’s contribution to the resource processing and discovery cycle in repositories in the agricultural domain' The paper presents the work that FAO carries out in recommending standards for the encoding and exchange of metadata while also reviewing techniques to help navigate within open repositories and services. It talks about how to improve the visibility of repository content and explains the benefits of integrating subject vocabulary tools expressed in SKOS. It concludes with a presentation of use cases integrating these recommendations into DSpace and Drupal customizations..."