At SemTech 2011 in San Francisco, the AIMS team presented the business case and community of practice for VocBench, its distributed, web-based ontology editing and management system. VocBench is a web-based multi-lingual vocabulary management tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It transforms thesauri, authority lists ...

IMARK is pleased to announce the release of Knowledge Sharing for Development, an e-learning module with 36 lessons covering a wide range of tools and methodologies to support knowledge sharing. The module covers the basics of knowledge management, explores the benefits of communities and networks, and provides guidance on how to ...

What kind of online tools and resources are available for repository administrators and managers? How can we share knowledge, exchange expertise and build capacities to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability? What kind of professional support can open access repository administrators and managers receive?  The guest ...

Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing Preliminary results of an International Expert Consultation This discussion paper presents preliminary results from an International Expert Electronic Consultation on developing a CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing held online from 4 to 15 April 2011 by Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research ...

Since 2001, FAO organizes the AOS Workshops in collaboration with key stakeholders and information and knowledge managers from agricultural institutions with the objective to invest in better semantic tools; to provide a discussion forum for experts to present results and experiences, and reflect on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantics; and ...