The final report (incl. the list of participants) of the AGROVOC CS Workbench Verification Phase which took place from 17 November to 12 December 2008 is now available at: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011/aj983e/aj983e00.pdf.The report is based on the feedback received from 17 participants from 15 countries through ...
SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)* Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence(Switzerland)* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(Italy)AIM & TOPICSThe aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment of MTSR'09 is to bring ...
AGROVOC is remodeled using OWL, the Web Ontology Language, into a more semantically structured system called the Concept Server. For developers of agricultural information management systems, AGROVOC Concept Server web services beta version has been released to incorporate AGROVOC Concept Server into their applications via web services. Using web services, ...
CTA (http://www.cta.int/) and Wisard International (http://www.wi.wur.nl/UK/) have been developing a DLIO Library that has the AGRIS AP as basis for data entry, data storage and data dissemination. FARA and SADC have also invested in this development.This Object Library is a fully ...
The AGROVOC Thesaurus is currently under a profound revision aimed to make it more coherent, consistent, and more meaningful. The revision is being done in partnership with ICRISAT, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, and coordinated by FAO staff. The main ...