This article by Abenet Yabowork, Alan Orth and Peter Ballantyne in the KM4Dev Journal explains the origins, operation and uses of the CGSpace repository set up in 2009 by the International Livestock Research Institute with several partners. Continue reading
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ILRI hosts DSpace Ethiopia user meeting and CGSpace training
From 28 October to 1 November 2013, International Livestock Research Institute knowledge management team in Addis Ababa held an informal first Ethiopia DSpace Interest Group Meeting and a DSpace Technical Training for staff and other DSpace users. On the first day, about 25 people came to ILRI from various organizations in Ethiopia and abroad to meet, … Continue reading
From mahider to CGSpace: Moving our research outputs to open repositories
In late 2009, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) began work on an institutional repository using Dspace software. Under the name ‘mahider’ (http://mahider.ilri.org), we intended this repository to be a complete index of all ILRI research products/outputs; with ‘full’ content as often as possible (we struggle to get full versions of articles and other products … Continue reading
Dspace training in Nairobi
From 1-3 December 2010, we held a Dspace training workshop at the ILRI campus in Nairobi. We brought together a group of interested people from ILRI, ICRAF, ICT-KM, CPWF, KARI and FAO – to gain skills and forge collaboration among us. An expert trainer was provided by @MIRE – a Belgian group specializing in in … Continue reading
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