The second newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles portal has arrived. Inside you will find a focus on 'More statistics for decision makers' and a special feature of 'FAO's Gender and Land Rights database'. It also provides tips about 'How to find country codes and names' as well as links ...

The version 1.1 of the geopolitical ontology includes a structured description of FAO, UN and internationally recognized data sources. It consists of source name, source identifier, source creator, source modified date. In addition, the new version also defines concepts using Dublin Core vocabulary (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description).

  AGROVOC is a multilingual structured thesaurus for the agricultural domain, which is owned and maintained by an international community of Agricultural Research Information Institutions. AGROVOC is used all over the world by researchers, librarians, information managers and others, for indexing, retrieving, and organizing data in Agricultural Information Systems. It currently ...

Dear colleagues, Last year, our partners Scriptoria worked with us to develop a communication strategy for CIARD, which formed the basis of the activities which we undertook in 2009 and early 2010.  At the partners meeting at Montpellier in April, we discussed our approaches to communicating the messages around the CIARD initiative, ...

I just collected and assembled all material regarding AGRIS2010 in a shared folder. The address is \\kcew118\GILWS-Library\Agris_2010. This is the basis for the development of the product  F06G!1302