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Kenya Open Data Portal

11/07/2011

Kenya Open Data Portal makes public government data acessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what's to come. The goal of opendata.go.ke is to make core government development, demographic, statistical and ...

1st Meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization in Luxembourg

11/07/2011

On 15 June 2011, the 1st meeting of the Collaborative Thesauri Working Group in Knowledge Organization, organized by the EU Publications Office, took place in Luxembourg. The Thesaurus Working Group is focusing on a meta-thesaurus project made of interlinked specialized thesauri articulated around EuroVoc, EU’s multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus, as the generic ...

AGROVOC linked to 10 new datasets

11/07/2011

AGROVOC is now part of the Linked Open Data(LOD) project, with mappings to 10 data resources: EUROVOC, NALT, GEMET, RAMEAU, LCSH, STW, TheSoz, DBpedia, Geopolitical Ontology, and Dewey Decimal Classification. In numbers: AGROVOC has now 21,000 outlinks and 3,000 inlinks. 

Proceedings of the 6th Open Knowledge Conference now online

08/07/2011

The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) took place on 30th June to 1st July 2011 in Berlin. OKCon is a wide-ranging conference that brings together individuals and organizations from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of presentations, workshops and exchange of ideas. The proceedings of the 6th Open ...

VocBench Biotechnology Glossary Training

07/07/2011

A group of almost a dozen participants representing all six FAO official languages trained for two days at FAO headquarters in Rome. The goal? Transform the FAO biotechnology glossaryinto a multi-lingual concept scheme managed using VocBench, FAO's distributed, web-based ontology editing and management system. The slides of Day 1and Day 2...