AIMS

Improved coverage of development issues through collaboration with UNDP

01/12/2010

The Human Development Index (HDI) value is now available on the key statistics section of each country profiles page. The HDI is a composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living. Links to the "...

Eurovoc Conference - Mind the lexical Gap

20/11/2010

On November 18-19 I participated in a workshop organized by the Publication office of EC in Luxembourg on the role of EUROVOC in underpinning the Semantic Web. (http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=node/936) The publication is office is strongly pushing EUROVOC as a cornerstone on an European Linked Open ...

Drupal: indexing nodes with Agrovoc (without a module)

16/11/2010

Instructions to implement manual Agrovoc indexing (with an Agrovoc search popup) in Drupal without the need of a dedicated module. 1. Taxonomies to create A) A taxonomy with no multilingual settings for Agrovoc codes. B) A multilingual taxonomy (with translation) for Agrovoc terms. Following the steps below, at the moment of ...

Launch of the NeOn Foundation

10/11/2010

Following the official launch of the NeOn Technologies Foundation there have been set up, some communication tools, branding and initial promotion material to make the Foundation visible to the community: The mailing list for all the registered members has been set up using Google groups. The address is neon-foundation@googlegroups....

Proposal for the IFLA Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) - Request for support

08/11/2010

The IFLA Information Technology section, with support of Cataloguing section, Classification and Indexing section, and Knowledge Management section, proposes the creation of a Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) within IFLA. The SWSIG intends to be a platform where interested professionals could gather, and undertake whatever tasks are needed to ...