The paper illustrates how the Open Access (OA) and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) models can be used within the AGRIS Network as a means of solving the problems of information dissemination and exchange of agricultural research outputs. It presents the possibility to address the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues ...
The new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the growing wealth of digital information have the potential to improve access to and benefits from development activities for the rural poor, as well as facilitate policy-making. In this regard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is involved ...
Controlled vocabularies, such as the multilingual agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC, are the facilitators of semantic services on the Internet, since they can provide the baseline for connecting distributed resources. The more resources in a particular domain are described using a certain controlled vocabulary, the more accessible and interoperable they will be. ...
This paper describes the work done within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on providing an ontology-based navigation to the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture (FNA) Journal. The aim of the revised navigation was to provide more efficient and effective browsing of the Food and Nutrition Publications ...
The latest release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus has now been updated on the AIMS web site. Together with new concepts and revision of existing ones, the Thesaurus is now also available in Hungarian. The Hungarian version is released by the Gödöllo Agribusiness Centre and has 16486 Descriptors and 9859 Non-descriptors. ...
