AIMS community endeavours to publish and document the work done in the context of standards, technology and good practices foropen science (open access, open data and other aspects of ‘openness’) in the agricultural domain. The publications include conference papers, journal papers, book chapters, technical reports, manuals and are deposited into two repositories – FAO Document Repository, E-LIS (E-prints in Library and Information Science).
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Access to agricultural information ensures that stakeholders in the farming system can make informed decisions towards increasing agricultural productivity. Agricultural information and data are...
The traditional approach of sharing data within silos seems to have reached its end with Web advancing to an era of opening data. From governments and international organizations to local cities...
In this paper we describe the ongoing move of the AGRIS repository toward a decentralized approach based on Linked Open Data (LOD) (Bizer, et al., 2008). This move has progressively required...
AGRIS is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in the food and agricultural domain. The AGRIS web portal is highly visited, reaching peaks of 350,000 visits/month from more than 200...
The traditional approach of sharing data within silos seems to have reached its end with Web advancing to an era of opening data. From governments and international organizations to local cities...
In this paper we report on our analysis of multilinguality support for thesauri, with special reference to the AGROVOC thesaurus. We highlight that AGROVOC makes exclusive use of ISO 639 to tag...
The Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative is the first large-scale attempt at realizing the Semantic Web vision of Tim Berners-Lee. As of September 2011, there are almost 300 knowledge bases linked...
This paper shows the experience of using AGROVOC thesaurus as a basis and model of information and knowledge organization and domain representation applied to soybean and sugar cane agricultural...
