AIMS

AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop-Outcome

12/03/2010

The AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop was held 1-2 March 2010 in Rome. The objective of the workshop was to find a methodology for the conversion from XML to RDF and for the mappings between AgroRDF and AGROVOC .  In the handout session some experiments were carried out, using a small dataset with an automatic ...

PLoS Launches Fast PDF Access with Pubget, Making Full Text Article Content More Accessible

04/03/2010

PLoS released Pubget links across its journal sites. Now, when users are browsing thousands of reference citations on PLoS journals they will be able to get to the full text article faster than ever before. Pubget solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search ...

Finalizing the workplan

01/03/2010

We have to finalize the workplan this week.  I will put responsibles, dates and efforts into the Spread Sheet at Google.  You are invited to revise this continuously - and also to make comments and inputs. Monday, March 8, at 2:30, there will be the possibility to discuss remaining issues. Than the ...

[New Publication]Smart Organization of Agricultural Knowledge

25/02/2010

 The tendency of representing information in a form that could be better elaborated by computers (the so called “machine readable format”) (Berners-Lee 1998) initiated years ago, expanded to many domains, among which Agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The Kasetsart University and the Indian Institute of Technology ...

[New Publication]The AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench System: Empowering management of agricultural vocabularies with semantics

19/02/2010

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is recognized as an information and knowledge-base organization. FAO's activities comprise four main areas which are closely related to various aspects of information and knowledge: capture and analyze, disseminate and share, localize and provide. The goal of developing and maintaining ...