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 ]