AIMS

Search&Index Engine Development&Integration Status

21/04/2010

This Blog entry is about Development and Integration of the lucene-based Indexing&Search Engine for AGROVOC Please refer to attached doc file for accessing status of development of the component. The following paragraph provides some introductory notes. Standing on what I heard from Sachit (unfortunately, there’s been no time ...

New WorldBank site based on Drupal

21/04/2010

A colleague just sent me a message about a new WorldBank site that was developed using Drupal.  It's very impressive.  The URL for the site is http://data.worldbank.org/ The site was created by a company called DevelopmentSeed.  These are the same folks that created the FeedApi and Feeds ...

Travel status for Montpellier meeting

21/04/2010

Since most of us might be encountering travel issues for the Montpellier meetings I thought I'd start a blog post As of Wednesday afternoon all of my flights to/from Montpellier are "on schedule".  However I know that there is a strong recommendation to contact airlines prior to going to ...

Definition of URIs

21/04/2010

During the workshop in Kuala Lumpur we discussed the structure of URIs with  the AOS schemes and we agree on the following   Domain (owner):              aims.fao.org/ place at the domain   :      aos name of the scheme         agrovoc specification                     _c_YYYYYYY classification as a scheme    #concept This is  the way the ...

Drupal hack for generating ISO 19139 XML metadata

17/04/2010

I am developing two Drupal 6 based Document Repository sites that have greatly benfited from the AgriDrupal design document. Thank you for making it available! I know about AgriDrupal through the Global Rangelands project at the University of Arizona but it is the U.S. Geoscince Information Network project at the ...