AIMS

Proposal for a Drupal Workbench Module

27/05/2010

[To be revised. The Agrovoc or generic SKOS browser functionality can be separated from the scope of this module and is covered by the SKOS browser module that will be developed for Agrovoc and for the BioTech Glossary]   After a first experiment with an Agrovoc search/index Drupal module based ...

Results from meeting with SEMIC-EU

27/05/2010

I am just back from my meetings with SEMiC-EU. Just to recap: SEMIC-EU (European Union- Semantic Interoperability Center) is an initiative of DG-IT (the CIO of the commission). It has been set up in 2007 to facilitate data exchange for e-government.  DG-IT is not only responsible for the internal IT structure ...

"Unifying" FAO statistic flags

24/05/2010

A working group in support of the corporate "SCWG"  has agreed a method to unify FAO "flags" on statistical databases.  Instead of forcing all data owners into a unified flag system, a concept scheme (Ontology) will be constructed that refers the different flags to each other and to international flagging ...

AIMS - Relating each product to a specific group

22/05/2010

 Hi all, As discussed today during the weekly tea meeting, I have prepared the following excel file to get your feedback on mapping each product to a proper theme. You will find the file at this link. If you do not have acces, let me know!  I would be great ...

[New Publication] The CIARD RING, an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services

20/05/2010

  Creating integrated information services in agriculture giving access and adding value to information residing in distributed sources remains a major challenge. In distributed architectures, value added services by definition interface several information sources / services. Therefore value added services cannot be built without an awareness of what others have done: which ...