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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The specific components which make up the World Agricultural Information Centre at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are described in this paper. WAICENT comprises...
The specific components which make up the World Agricultural Information Centre at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are described in this paper. WAICENT comprises...
In this paper we present our experience of using Web services to support interoperability of data sources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. We describe the information...
This paper presents our ongoing work in establishing a multilingual domain ontology for a biosecurity portal. As a prototypical approach, this project is embedded into the bigger context of the...
This paper outlines a project (involving FAO, SIFAR, and CNR) aiming at building a formal ontology in the fishery domain. The ontology will support semantic interoperability among existing fishery...
"Knowledge management is vital for effective decision-making.....It is therefore essential to maintain and improve the coverage, quantity, utility, timeliness and accessibility of the information...
Network technologies have helped to lower many of the geographical barriers that impede access to information resources, but other obstacles have appeared in their place: one is the heterogeneous...
WAICENT - World Agricultural Information Centre - has been operating since the beginning of this year under the auspices of the Information and Documentation Systems Division (GIL) in the Food and...
