The FAO Country Profiles portal is embracing the W3C Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative and recently released its Geopolitical Ontology in RDF format, including reference data used to manage country-based information and relevant key resources. The portal is also exposing some data in RDFa, which improves search and reuse.

The term 'Linked Data' refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. To learn more about LOD, listen to Tim Berners-Lee’s talk on "The next Web of open, linked data".