The IFLA Information Technology section, with support of Cataloguing section, Classification and Indexing section, and Knowledge Management section, proposes the creation of a Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) within IFLA. The SWSIG intends to be a platform where interested professionals could gather, and undertake whatever tasks are needed to ...

FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, has the global goal to defeat hunger and eliminate poverty. One of its core functions is the generation, dissemination and application of information and knowledge. Since 2000, the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) activity in FAO’s Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building ...

The version 2 of the DSpace OAI Extended AddOn is available, developed within the Portuguese RCAAP project (www.rcaap.pt). The OAI Extended Addon is currently available at http://bit.ly/adI3k1.   The OAI Extended Addon is an Addon (or a patch to be more precise) to the DSpaceplatform that ...

Welcome to the fourth newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles portal. This edition gives a focus on the large Catalog of data sources available in the FAO Country Profiles. You will find background information about the completed Photo gallery. Also included are tips on where to find the list of ...

A couple of slides on FAO's geopolitical ontology and web services have been prepared and shared on http://www.slideshare.net/faoaims/faos-geopolitical-ontology-and-services. The purpose of these slides is to summarize some background information about the FAO Country Profiles and to introduce the Geopolitical Ontology. The presentation contains detailed material ...