Dear all,   Imma and I spoke briefly on the phone yesterday about the overall context and purpose of our request.   The best course of action at this point is for me to provide you with the background documentation and samples of the lists to clarify the context and the nature ...

The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group has been chartered from May 2010 through August 2011 to prepare a series of reports on the existing and potential use of Linked Data technology for publishing library data. The group is currently preparing: A report which consists of "Benefits", "Vocabularies and Datasets", "Relevant ...

In a presentation given at Mann Library in May 2011, FAO’s Dr. Johannes Keizer reviews some of the work of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. This includes collaborating with numerous international organizations to ...

The FAO AIMS team presented the projects AgriDrupal and AgriOcean DSpace at the 6th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, the international gathering for a community of stakeholders engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories. Open Repositories 2011 was held in Austin, USA on 6-12 June. More information about ...

The FAO Country Profiles team made a presentation on Linked Open Data for the Food and Agriculture Country Profiles at the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011), the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. The presentation described how users benefit from a Linked Open Data (LOD) ...