On August 26th, at DrupalCon in Copenhagen, two "Birds of a Feather" meetings were held on Drupal and RDF. Stéphane Carlosquet and Lin Clark demonstrated the latest versions of their modules (and also RDFa in core) and in the last sessions several use cases were discussed, among which our ...

The FAO geopolitical ontology that facilitates data exchange and sharing in a standardized manner among systems managing information about countries and/or regions is listed among the US Government Ontologies in the Ontologies for e-government project.

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).

Just last week I received an invitation to participate in the Regional workshop on Agricultural Information, Communication and Knowledge Management (AICKM) Strategy Development and Meeting of SADC Network of AR&D Information Management Managers from the 30th August – 3rd September 2010, in Johannesburg/Pretoria (South Africa).The participation has been approved. ...

A first tentative Power Point presentation about AgriDrupal. It was used during an internal briefing in FAO. It will be revised after further discussion with the members of the community.