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Concept map on Open Access

17/12/2009

Although I am not convinced that reality can always be expressed in triplets I liked this concept map of issues related to Open Access by Laura Briggs www.ualberta.ca/~lbriggs1/briggs/openaccess.html

Final geopolitical ontology and new web services now available

14/12/2009

The final version of the geopolitical ontology 1.0 has just been released at the geopolitical information page of the FAO Country Profiles. This new version includes additional data at country level, such as currency names and codes, adjectives of nationality, the DBPedia/Wikipedia ID, and basic statistical data, such as land ...

FAO Country Profiles Survey

08/12/2009

The FAO Country Profiles Team has launched a short survey to receive feedback on how the Country Profiles system is used; to identify the most important features for the users; and to help prioritizing the new developments for 2010. Completing the survey takes approximately 5 minutes and will contribute to identify areas ...

Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies" - Pt1 now available

04/12/2009

The Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies. Thesauri for information retrieval" is now available online on the BSI site 'free of charge’. Comments on the associated draft XML schema are best submitted via the NISO site. Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and ...

Drupal 7 and FRBR: A Mental Model

03/12/2009

  I've been away from FRBR for years now, but it still sticks in the back of my mind and occasionally rises to the surface in a fit of feverish writing. Here's one such case, which attempts to fit FRBR into the existing technological capabilities of the forthcoming release of theDrupal ...