The presentations of the Agricultural Ontology Services (AOS) 2012 Workshop have been uploaded on SlideShare under the AIMS account. An overview of the 18 uploaded slides with links is available on AIMS at aims.fao.org/aos-workshop/2012.

Members of the AIMS team held and participated in the following presentations:

• John Fereira, Valeria Pesce, Jon Corson-Rikert, Ajit Maru: AgriVIVO: An Ontology based Store of URIs and Relations between Entities in Agricultural Research
• Ivo Pierozzi Jr., Leandro Henrique M. Oliveira, Gladis Maria de B. Almeida, Caterina Caracciolo, Gudrun Johannsen: AGROVOC as Knowledge Organization Model Applied to Brazilian Agricultural Intensification Processes
• Kow Weng Onn, Michelle Lim Sien Niu, Dickson Lukose, Gudrun Johannsen, Johannes Keizer: Framework for Matching and Linking Large Ontologies
• Caterina Caracciolo, Gudrun Johannsen, Lavanya Kiran, Johannes Keizer: Is ISO 639 enough for a multilingual thesaurus? The AGROVOC case

AOS 2012 Workshop

The 2012 edition of the AOS workshop took place in Kutching, the capital of the Sarawak region in Malaysia. The workshop was co-organized by FAO, MIMOS, and CAAS (the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science) in the persons of Dr. Caterina Caracciolo, Michelle Lim and Xuefu Zhan, and was co-located with the Knowledge Technology Week, a large annual event organized by MIMOS Berhad.



This year AOS focussed on practical, semantically-based applications in information management for agriculture, and featured some 20 presentations distributed in two days. In line with the tradition of the AOS workshops, good time was devoted to discussions and panels.