AIMS

"Unifying" FAO statistic flags

24/05/2010

A working group in support of the corporate "SCWG"  has agreed a method to unify FAO "flags" on statistical databases.  Instead of forcing all data owners into a unified flag system, a concept scheme (Ontology) will be constructed that refers the different flags to each other and to international flagging ...

AIMS - Relating each product to a specific group

22/05/2010

 Hi all, As discussed today during the weekly tea meeting, I have prepared the following excel file to get your feedback on mapping each product to a proper theme. You will find the file at this link. If you do not have acces, let me know!  I would be great ...

[New Publication] The CIARD RING, an infrastructure for interoperability of agricultural research information services

20/05/2010

  Creating integrated information services in agriculture giving access and adding value to information residing in distributed sources remains a major challenge. In distributed architectures, value added services by definition interface several information sources / services. Therefore value added services cannot be built without an awareness of what others have done: which ...

Presentation on Information Systems Architectures using CMSs: examples with Drupal

20/05/2010

At IAALD 2010 in Montpellier, the CIARD Content Management Task Force organized a workshop on information systems architectures. Attached is the presentation on "Information / software architectures based on Content Management Systems (CMS): some examples with Drupal"

NuAges Project for AGRIS2010

20/05/2010

We have been invited by University of Sheffield to participate in "Technology Implementation" Project which has the aim to establish a system for targeted crawling and semantic annotation in the cloud. The partners are Univ. of Sheffield, FAO, Elsevier,  IXXO (French SME), OntoText (Bulgarian SME) and Canonical (Cloud Service Provider ...