Title: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions

Date: September 25, 2013

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

System requirements and costs, please visit the webinar page; on the NISO website.

The webinar is organized by NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) and is part of the NISO/DCMI 2013 Joint Webinar Series.

About the webinar

Open data is a crucial prerequisite for inventing and disseminating the innovative practices needed for agricultural development. To be usable, data must not just be open in principle -- i.e., covered by licenses that allow re-use. Data must also be published in a technical form that allows for its integration into a wide range of applications. The webinar will be of interest to any institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data cloud.

This webinar describes the technical solutions adopted by a widely diverse global network of agricultural research institutes for publishing research results. The talk focuses on AGRIS, a central and widely-used resource linking agricultural datasets for easy consumption, and AgriDrupal, an adaptation of the popular, open-source content management system Drupal optimized for producing and consuming linked datasets.

Agricultural research institutes in developing countries share many of the constraints faced by libraries and other documentation centers, and not just in developing countries: institutions are expected to expose their information on the Web in a re-usable form with shoestring budgets and with technical staff working in local languages and continually lured by higher-paying work in the private sector. Technical solutions must be easy to adopt and freely available.