Publications
Report
Non peer-reviewed
Agricultural Learning Repositories (AgLR 2008) E-Conference
Issued on
2008
This report provides the summary of the discussions that took place during the Agricultural Learning Repositories (AgLR 2008, http://aglr.aua.gr/econf.php) E-Conference. AgLR 2008 aimed to explore the needs and requirements of stakeholders involved in the development and operation of agricultural learning repositories. It was organised as an electronically facilitated discussion, during...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
Achieving OAI PMH compliancy for CDS/ISIS databases
Issued on
2008
Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to present the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Associazione per la documentazione le biblioteche e gli archivi (DBA) in Italy to make web CDS/ISIS-based applications compliant with the...
Other
Non peer-reviewed
Results from a study of the implementation of metadata application profiles in Agricultural Learning Repositories
Issued on
2008
In technology-enhanced learning, metadata interoperability has been identified as an important issue. It allows not only the exchange and preservation of crucial learning and teaching information (such as competency profiles, learning activities, and descriptions of learning resources), but also its future re-use among a large number of different systems and...
Guide/Manual
Non peer-reviewed
Software architecture for managing the Fisheries ontologies lifecycle
Issued on
2007
This document describes the software architecture for implementing a system for managing the fisheries ontologies lifecycle, cornerstone of WP7. The lifecycle described in this deliverable is an instantiation of the possible lifecycles that can be carried out with the NeOn toolkit, and has been selected according to FAO needs, style...
Report
Peer-reviewed
A Practical Approach on Creating a Restricted Ontology for Crop Wild Relatives
Issued on
2007
The task to identify a subset of about 400 terms highly relevant to crop wild relatives was performed as a continuation to an earlier project where a set of about 11400 term was extracted from on-line sources. Terms with high relevance were grouped into themes, roughly corresponding to Agrovoc (top...
Presentation
Non peer-reviewed
FAO's role in facilitating access to the scientific and technical literature in Agriculture in developing countries
Issued on
2007
Research generated in developing and emerging countries is currently “missing” from the international knowledge bases because of financial consequences affecting its publication and distribution. Much of the scientific research output from Africa for example, is in form of grey literature and hardly accessible. FAO is the specialized United Nation agency...
Report
Peer-reviewed
Results from experiments in ontology learning including evaluation and recommendation
Issued on
2007
This document describes the Ontology Learning experiments we performed in order to recommend a set of ontology learning techniques to enhance the ontology engineering process in the fisheries domain in place at FAO. Experiments have been conceived in the wider context of the WorkPackage 7 of the NeOn Project. The...
Peer-reviewed
Open Access Towards Bridging the Digital Divide–Policies and Strategies for Developing Countries
Issued on
2007
There is a consensus that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) hold great promise for development by connecting people to more accurate and up-to-date sources of information and knowledge. However, the evidence so far shows that the benefits accrued from the utilization of ICTs have been inequitably distributed with most developing...
Guide/Manual
Non peer-reviewed
Basic guidelines for managing AGROVOC
Issued on
2007
AGROVOC is a Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus developed by FAO. AGROVOC was basically "born" in English, or at least was (and still is) oriented to Western-European languages (mainly EN, ES, FR). However, over the years, the need of translating it in multiple languages arose, in particular in the non-European Chinese and...
Peer-reviewed
The politics of digital" reform and revolution": towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitisation
Issued on
2007
Current challenges regarding the frame of reference and control of African digitisation projects pose serious questions about their future direction. The author suggests practical strategies aimed at mainstreaming resources and increasing African control, including the need for readers of Innovation – librarians, information scientists, archivists, and historians – to engage...