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  • Creating and aligning controlled vocabularies

    A vocabulary stores words, synonyms, word sense definitions (i.e. glosses), relations between word senses and concepts; such a vocabulary is generally referred to as the Controlled Vocabulary if choice or selections of terms are done by domain specialists. In our case, we create and match two controlled vocabularies by using...

  • Knowledge models in agropedia indica

    This paper refers to the creation of multilingual agricultural knowledge models (KMs) in the context of the Agropedia Indica project. We present the reasons and the requirements for the development of such KMs, the choices made in terms of modeling tools and modeling solutions, and we detail the content of...

  • Building open access in Africa

    Developing Countries (DCs), particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are suffering from scientific information famine. The expectation that the internet would facilitate scientific information flow does not seem to be realisable, owing to the restrictive subscription fees of the high quality sources and the beleaguering inequity in the access and...

  • Designing AGRIS 2010

    This poster presents recent work on the redesign of a bibliographic database of research literature (AGRIS) to emphasise the interconnected, relational nature of modern Web metadata. The distributed nature of the world described by AGRIS naturally fits a "linked data" deployment model, in which AGRIS becomes an entry point and...

  • Comparing different metadata application profiles for agricultural learning repositories

    Agricultural learning repositories can provide new opportunities for sharing, accessing, using and reusing learning resources online. Metadata plays a crucial role in such systems: apart from simply indexing resources, metadata makes it easier to discover a learning resource in a repository, as well as to decide about ways to use...

  • The scholarly use of journals offered through the Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture(AGORA) Programs as suggested by the journal-citing patterns of authors in the least-developed

    The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and the Access to Global Online Resources in Agriculture (AGORA) programs provide free access to academic journals through the internet to researchers in the developing world. The objective of the programs is to engage researchers in the scholarly communication process through the...

  • Emerging issues, priorities and commitments in e-agriculture

    Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director of FAO's Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division, explains that only through the commitment of policy makers can we truly realize the benefits of e-Agriculture for the developing world - and in particular, the rural poor.

  • A Web-based tool to manage multilingual thesauri: the example of AGROVOC

    AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment), and currently contains over 29 000 terms. It was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Commission...