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Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus published as Linked Open Data

06/08/2013

"With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data." [1] The Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) can be added to the rapidly increasing number of interlinked datasets that are published as Linked Data, since China's largest thesaurus in the agricultural domain has now been published as ...

Upcoming RDA Second Plenary Meeting: register today!

06/08/2013

Data sharing offers important benefits for scientific progress, but is not yet very easy among scholars. In order to overcome this barrier, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was set-up in 2012. The aim: accelerating and facilitating research data sharing and exchange across different research groups. Coming up this September is the ...

E-learning course on social media & web 2.0 by FAO & UNITAR

05/08/2013

Social Media for development - Why is it important? "It's important to communicate with people in the language they speak, on the platform they use." (Jim Rosenberg, Head Online Communication & Social Media, the World Bank) The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and FAO collaborated to hold the ...

Links to the Web sites mentioned in LODE-BD Webinar

31/07/2013

At the LODE-BD Webinar today, I mentioned some useful sources for locating LOD datasets, vocabularies, properties, and examples of bibliographic data. Here are the links to some of them.  1. Where to find available LOD datasets: The Data Hub:  http://datahub.io/ (check under certain groups, such as "Bibliographic Data", "Library ...

Invitation to take FAO Country Profiles' User survey

31/07/2013

FAO Country Profiles (FCP) is the pioneering information retrieval tool which groups FAO's vast archive of information on its global activities in agriculture and development in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country. What is your experience with and what do you expect from the FAO Country Profiles ...