From October 17 to 29 I was  on a trip to China and Malaysia  visiting various Chinese Institutions and MIMOS the technology arm of the Malaysian ministry of Technology. The report of this trip is at Trip China/Malaysia I gave a presentation on AIMS and CIARD at the Chinese Agricultural Ontology ...

A new release of the AGROVOC Web Services is now available on the AIMS web site. Some of the existing web services have been modified to produce also SKOS format (in addition to the existing TBX), deprecated services have been removed, and the following web services have been added:  * simpleSearchByModeandLang: ...

This year the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application focused on linked data and the enabling of the Semantic Web. The conference explored "the conceptual and practical issues in breaking the constraints of data silos and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge. Metadata is a key to ...

The Special Issue on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics is available on the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO). Papers can be found online.

Purpose - The main objective of the AGROVOC Concept Server (CS) is to create a collaborative reference platform and a "one-stop" shop for a pool of commonly used concepts related to agriculture, containing terms, definitions and relationships between terms in multiple languages derived from various sources. This paper aims to ...