This paper illustrates the conversion from a traditional thesaurus in agriculture (AGROVOC) to a new system, the Agricultural Ontology Service Concept Server (AOS/CS). The Concept Server will serve as a multilingual repository of concepts in the agricultural domain providing ontological relationships and a rich, semantically sound terminology. The Food ...
The articles published on the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture (FNA) Web now make use of Semantic Web techniques such as RDFa (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/). The selected articles connect the user with information retrieved from other well known Web sites such as Amazon, Del.icio.us, Flickr and ...
The AGRIS Secretariat recently supported the conversion of INIA's local database into WebAGRIS. This work included running of the WebAGRIS application, the mapping of the local database fields to the WebAGRIS fields and the migration of the local application/metadata to WebAGRIS. Further steps will include the installation of the ...
Avano, a marine and aquatic sciences OAI harvester, now offers access to electronic resources about marine and aquatic sciences. The resources available in Avano come from the OAI harvesting of over 200 Open Archives and a number of commercial editors. The first harvesting was done in batch mode producing a legacy ...
The AgLR 2008 e-Conference aims to initiate dialogue around the topic of Agricultural Learning Resources, involving organizations and individuals that are active in the field of agricultural learning repositories. The workshop is supported and promoted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) which has been created to help make available ...
