The 6th annual conference of the "semanticians" took place in San Francisco, June 21-25.
It was an extremely successful and this is witnessed by the fact that in the first conference in 2005 some 300 persons attended. This year the number has grown to 1400.
Technologies change and case studies and success stories ...
After a week of tests, I realized that we must migrate to Solr, especially for these reasons: Solr is the server-ization of Lucene (not a wrapper), that uses HTTP requests for indexing and querying documents: for a web application, performances are higher Solr has a lot of interesting features, such ...
The second newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles portal has arrived. Inside you will find a focus on 'More statistics for decision makers' and a special feature of 'FAO's Gender and Land Rights database'. It also provides tips about 'How to find country codes and names' as well as links ...
The version 1.1 of the geopolitical ontology includes a structured description of FAO, UN and internationally recognized data sources.
It consists of source name, source identifier, source creator, source modified date. In addition, the new version also defines concepts using Dublin Core vocabulary (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description).