Publications
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Metadata application profile for agricultural learning resources
Issued on
2007
Capacity and institution building is a core function of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO has recently started the “Capacity and Institution Building Portal” to provide structured access to information on FAO’s capacity and institution building services and learning resources. To ensure that the Portal...
Newspaper/magazine article
Peer-reviewed
A distributed architecture for harvesting metadata describing organizations in the agriculture sector
Issued on
2007
Providing easy access to updated, accurate and semantically meaningful information about organizations working in the agriculture sector is of primary importance in agricultural information management. Many databases of these organizations already exist but none are comprehensive and all differ in coverage (often overlapping), semantic organization, being up-to-date, quantity and quality...
Conference paper
Non peer-reviewed
Requirements for the treatment of multilinguality in ontologies within FAO
Issued on
2007
International organizations like FAO are intrinsically multilingual. FAO is currently experimenting with semantic-oriented technologies based on ontologies, with the purpose of integrating data across various information systems and providing better services to end users. However, in order for these technologies to be used in real-life scenarios, models and tools for...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Information technologies and standards for agricultural information resources management: AGRIS Application Profile, AGROVOC and LISAGR
Issued on
2007
The new AGRIS initiative, which was launched at the Expert Consultation in October 2005, has defined three main areas of intervention to improve international information systems in agricultural science and technology: Advocacy, Capacity Building and Content Management. Content management, the management of agricultural science and technology information, has various needs...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Towards an architecture for open archive networks in Agricultural Sciences and Technology
Issued on
2007
The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects. The paper illustrates how the Open Access (OA) and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) models can be used...
Project/Business plan
Non peer-reviewed
Revised and enhanced fisheries ontologies
Issued on
2007
This document describes and discusses the fisheries ontologies developed for use within the Fish Stock Depletion Assessment System (FSDAS). All ontologies are publicly available from the FAO website, from http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/fi. This document is organized as follows. In Chapter 1 we place our work in the context of the WP7 case...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Ontology-based navigation of bibliographic metadata: example of the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Journal
Issued on
2007
This paper describes the work done within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on providing an ontology-based navigation for the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture (FNA) Journal. The aim of the revised navigation was to provide more efficient and effective browsing of the Food and Nutrition Publications...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
The FAO Open Archive
Issued on
2007
Since 1998, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been publishing its electronic publications in the FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR). The electronic publishing workflow is maintained by the Electronic Information Management System (EIMS). The EIMS-CDR holds more than 38 500 documents and is the gateway...
Project/Business plan
Non peer-reviewed
Software architecture for the ontology-based Fisheries Stock Depletion Assessment System (FSDAS)
Issued on
2007
This document describes the architecture for the ontology-driven Fisheries Stock Depletion Assessment System (FSDAS) knowledge base. It will be a stand-alone Java Web Start (JWS) application that communicates via web services with a separate server instance of the NeOn core toolkit and an RDF triple store for unstructured data sources...
Project/Business plan
Non peer-reviewed
Inventory of fisheries resources and systems
Issued on
2007
This document contains the results achieved in documenting and detailing a set of fisheries information systems and resources for the purposes of ontology experimentation by NeOn partners, and for the use of the work package seven case study.