The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) took place on 30th June to 1st July 2011 in Berlin. OKCon is a wide-ranging conference that brings together individuals and organizations from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of presentations, workshops and exchange of ideas. The proceedings of the 6th Open ...
A group of almost a dozen participants representing all six FAO official languages trained for two days at FAO headquarters in Rome. The goal?
Transform the FAO biotechnology glossaryinto a multi-lingual concept scheme managed using VocBench, FAO's distributed, web-based ontology editing and management system. The slides of Day 1and Day 2...
Work Overview December 2010-June 2011 (Sarah Dister) Tasks executed: Finished cleaning up the migrated bibliographic headings coming from FAOdoc and CDR. 3,536 concepts for Corporate Bodies were created 586 of them linked to FAOTerm; 1,695 contained a relationship isPart Of; 62 were identified as obsolete. Homonyms were disambiguated by consulting external information resources, however, they ...
At SemTech 2011 in San Francisco, the AIMS team presented the business case and community of practice for VocBench, its distributed, web-based ontology editing and management system.
VocBench is a web-based multi-lingual vocabulary management tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It transforms thesauri, authority lists ...
IMARK is pleased to announce the release of Knowledge Sharing for Development, an e-learning module with 36 lessons covering a wide range of tools and methodologies to support knowledge sharing.
The module covers the basics of knowledge management, explores the benefits of communities and networks, and provides guidance on how to ...
