On June 7th and 8th, a delegation from MIMOS, Malaysia visited FAO. MIMOS is a government agency of MOSTI (the Ministry of Science and Technology) of Malaysia. OEKC is collaborating with MIMOS in the area of “semantic technologies”. Specifically MIMOS has agreed to host FAO’s multilingual agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC, ...

As a spinn off of the autoevaluation Tom and I are writing a chapter for a book with the "Enterprise Linked Data" that will be published by Springer january next year. Comments are welcome   my edits Page 2,   first paragraph: I have to verify if we can refer to the autoevaluation ...

Johannes asked to propose topics for a foreseen Drupal Workshop focused on Linked Data. In my opinion, we should focus on a few essential issues, otherwise we risk being taken away by the million interesting things happening in Drupal. I would focus on the following crucial points: 1) Integrating Linked Data ...

  During my visit at the Research Institute of Peruvian Amazonas (IIAP), in Iquitos, Peru, I have been invited to present AGROVOC and related work during the annual meeting of the latinamerican nodes of GBIF. This year the meeting was hosted by IIAP, and organized in Cuzco, only a 2.5 hour flight ...

From 2004 to 2009 several African countries (Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia) and research networks (BVB, EMER, GIRE, TICER, DIGITAFRICA) were able with the support of French cooperation to develop a Web based system for scientific and technical information called "SIST".  The French Ministry of Foreign and ...