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Developing a Metadata Application Profile for Sharing Agricultural Scientific and Scholarly Research Resources

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This article describes the development of the VOA3R Metadata Application Profile to facilitate the description, dissemination and reuse of research results in the fields of Agriculture and Aquaculture within a federation of open access repositories. VOA3R is a research project aspiring to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated platform for the retrieval of relevant open content and data that supports explicit models of the scholarly lifecycle and the practical tasks targeted by applied research. The article details the phased implementation of the core VOA3R application profile relating to the description of scholarly resources. The development process has been based upon the methodology and components of the Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application Profiles: functional requirements, domain model, description set profile, usage guidelines and data format. Maximum interoperability, reuse of existing mature metadata standards, long-term quality control and extensibility for addressing further community needs, constitute the main benefits of this approach.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Agiou Spyridonos, 12210, Egaleo, Greece

    Nikos Diamantopoulos & Cleo Sgouropoulou

  2. Greek Research & Technology Network, 56 Messogeion Av., 11527, Athens, Greece

    Nikos Diamantopoulos

  3. Agro-Know Technologies, 17 Grammou St., 15235, Athens, Greece

    Kostas Kastrantas & Nikos Manouselis

  4. Information Engineering Research Unit, Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Ctra. de Barcelona km 33.6, 28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain

    Nikos Manouselis

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  1. Information Engineering Research Unit Computer Science Dept., University of Alcalá Ctra., Barcelona km. 33.6, Alcalá de Henares, 28871, Madrid, Spain

    Elena García-Barriocanal

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Cukurova, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey

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  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Yasar University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

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Diamantopoulos, N., Sgouropoulou, C., Kastrantas, K., Manouselis, N. (2011). Developing a Metadata Application Profile for Sharing Agricultural Scientific and Scholarly Research Resources. In: García-Barriocanal, E., Cebeci, Z., Okur, M.C., Öztürk, A. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24731-6_45

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