From October 25-27, I represented FAO at the Berlin 8 conference on open access publishing, More than 300 institutions have now signed the Berlin declaration. The next conference will take place in the United States to underline the truly international character. I focused in my presentation on the importance of openAccess for ...

We are pleased to announce that an updated AGROVOC version is available online. It now contains 579 994 terms in 19 languages. Search AGROVOC at: aims.fao.org/website/Search/sub   We look forward to your comments and suggestions on how to further improve AGROVOC. Best wishes for a happy and fruitful New ...

These comments and recommendations derive from discussions held during the workshop of LA community of users in Lima, and my work with users of WB in Iquitos and LIma.      Distributed maintenance of AGROVOC: copyrights and credits   As the WB allows for wider collaboration around AGROVOC, people ask how copyright and ...

On Nov. 18-19, 2010 I participated in the first workshop of the AGROVOC latinamerican community of users. It took place in Lima, at the local office of IICA. After the worshop, I dedicated the rest of my staying in Peru to work with the editors involved in a pilot project of ...

AGRIS version 2.0 was released on 20/12/2010 and it's available here. This is a new version based on the latest web and search technologies. Some new features are: Apache Solr search engine: New core architecture and technology. Solr is the server-ization of Lucene (not a wrapper), that uses HTTP requests for indexing ...