During a working visit to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science in Beijing, AIMS team members Caterina Caracciolo and Johannes Keizer were invited to give presentations at the National Library of China and the Chinese National Libray of Science and Technology.

The presentation at the National Library focussed on the role of Libraries in creating a Linked Open Data Infrastructure.  Taking a traditional bibliographical record as a starting point, it was shown how Linked Data technology can transform this bibliographical record into a rich source of Information regarding the specific topic.  The presentation is available at : http://www.slideshare.net/faoaims/linked-open-data-for-science-culture-…

NSTL  (National Science and Technology Library) is working on a big project to facilitate access to foreign scientific literature.  In the context of this project an Knowledge Organization System is created with 3 layers: basic vocabularies, super thesaurus and subject ontologies.  One of the sub-projects is the creation of a vocabulary management system very similar to the VocBench, developed by the AIMS team with partners. Therefore our Chinese colleagues were very interested in our experiences.  Caterina Caracciolo gave a demo of the VocBench capacities.  Johannes Keizer was appointed member of the " expert consulting committee" of the program.   The presentation with material is available at http://www.slideshare.net/faoaims/2012-09-nstl