The importance of adopting and promoting open standards and technologies for the design, development and deployment of learning repositories has been recently discussed by key stakeholders such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the World Agroforestry Centre and the ...
An ontology in the area of Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) has recently been developed in a joint effort between Bioversity International and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The ontology is now accessible online in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Russian). The hierarchy can be browsed in a tree-like view and ...
A common vision that may serve as an enabler for sustainable development, environmental preservation, and fighting hunger in the world, is the involvement, collaboration and coordination of activities dealing with the production, organisation and exchange of agricultural knowledge. Numerous technical and subject experts are working on related topics, tackling with ...
After a period of testing by FAO, GFAR and GFIS, the Agricultural Events Application Profile (Ag-Events AP) is now available to share information about upcoming events in the domain of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry and related subject areas. There are many aspects of an event, ranging from simple announcement to detailed ...
This document describes the architecture for the ontology-driven Fisheries Stock Depletion Assessment System (FSDAS) knowledge base. It will be a stand-alone Java Web Start (JWS) application that communicates via web services with a separate server instance of the NeOn core toolkit and an RDF triple store for unstructured data sources. ...
