The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange ...

Executive Summary The goal of  this trip was to discuss recent activities of OEK, especially the CIARD (http:www.ciard.net) initiative and the   work on AGROVOC and linked open data (http://aims.fao.org) with partners in the  USA and to agree on specific collaboration actions.  Main results of ...

Part of the Fifth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'11). Yasar University, October 12-October 14, 2011, Izmir (Turkey) Motivation Handling metadata and semantics in open access repositories and infrastructures is becoming increasingly challenging due to emerging requirements like repositories of scientific data sets, interoperability of repositories with external services and ...

This use case describes the implementation of AgriDrupal at the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management in Bangladesh, with the objective of integrating in a single platform the document repository and web content management requirements. The Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) ...

The International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) has been firmly established and held biannually in Thailand since 1993. To recognize the trends in the service industry, this year SNLP will be held jointly with the Agriculture Ontology Service (AOS) conference, emphasizing on the theme of service research innovation. Paper topics ...