{"id":12076,"date":"2011-04-01T02:11:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=12076"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:27:28","slug":"connecting-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=12076","title":{"rendered":"Connecting-Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>a project of the African Studies Centre ASC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connecting-Africa is a service that provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/About.aspx\">about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/Publishers.aspx\">Publishers, copyright<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/Events.aspx\">Remember<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrikastudies.nl\/nvas-engels.html\">Netherlands African Studies Association<\/a> NVAS \/<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.global-connections.nl\/ \">Global Connections<\/a> NL, which is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.global-connections.nl\/\">Development Polcy Review Network<\/a>,\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search4dev.nl\/\">Index to Search4Dev<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: Connecting-Africa, c\/o African Studies Centre, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/Contact.aspx\">Contact<\/a> and Feedback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/About.aspx\">About 2\/2<\/a>: &#8230; The service provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>details of Africa experts (researchers, policymakers, development practitioners) affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/li>\n<li> details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes;<\/li>\n<li> titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere;<\/li>\n<li> digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Connecting-Africa provides access to these digital resources by \u00ab\u00a0harvesting\u00a0\u00bb their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) and by filtering the metadata using its Post Harvest Analyzer.<\/p>\n<p>There is no charge for using the service or for contributing to it.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see: <a href=\"http:\/\/arno.uvt.nl\/show.cgi?fid=68190\">Vanessa Proudman<\/a>: Connecting Africa: a portal for Africanists: publications and experts unite \u2013 increasing global visibility of Africanist research.<\/p>\n<p>How to contribute &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/Signup\/\">please add your profile<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please add your profile if you are a researcher, development practitioner or policymaker affiliated to an organization based in the Netherlands or Belgium and if you wish to participate in Connecting-Africa.net.<\/p>\n<p>In order to participate fully in Connecting-Africa you are encouraged to submit your research information including working papers, research reports, conference papers, and so on, to your local repository.<\/p>\n<p>History and background information: &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecting-africa.net\/About.aspx\">full long text about<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a project of the African Studies Centre ASC Connecting-Africa is a service that provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere &#8230; (about 1\/2). 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