AIMS

Release of version 1.1 of the geopolitical ontology

08/07/2010

The version 1.1 of the geopolitical ontology includes a structured description of FAO, UN and internationally recognized data sources. It consists of source name, source identifier, source creator, source modified date. In addition, the new version also defines concepts using Dublin Core vocabulary (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description).

[New Publication] From AGROVOC OWL Model towards AGROVOC SKOS Model

02/07/2010

  AGROVOC is a multilingual structured thesaurus for the agricultural domain, which is owned and maintained by an international community of Agricultural Research Information Institutions. AGROVOC is used all over the world by researchers, librarians, information managers and others, for indexing, retrieving, and organizing data in Agricultural Information Systems. It currently ...

CIARD Draft Communication Plan

02/07/2010

Dear colleagues, Last year, our partners Scriptoria worked with us to develop a communication strategy for CIARD, which formed the basis of the activities which we undertook in 2009 and early 2010.  At the partners meeting at Montpellier in April, we discussed our approaches to communicating the messages around the CIARD initiative, ...

Material for planning purposes

02/07/2010

I just collected and assembled all material regarding AGRIS2010 in a shared folder. The address is \\kcew118\GILWS-Library\Agris_2010. This is the basis for the development of the product  F06G!1302

Data.gov has just announced the publication of one of the largest Data Sets

01/07/2010

"Data.gov now hosts a set of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents containing triples created by converting a number of the Data.gov Data Sets into this format, making over 6.4 billion triples of open government data available to the community." http://www.data.gov/semantic/data/alpha This time.. triples ...