Publications
Conference paper
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A Comprehensive Framework for Building Multilingual Domain Ontologies: Creating a Prototype Biosecurity Ontology
Issued on
2002
This paper presents our ongoing work in establishing a multilingual domain ontology for a biosecurity portal. As a prototypical approach, this project is embedded into the bigger context of the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN. The AOS will act as...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Creating the Semantic Web: the Role of an agricultural Ontology Server (AOS)
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2002
"Knowledge management is vital for effective decision-making.....It is therefore essential to maintain and improve the coverage, quantity, utility, timeliness and accessibility of the information collected and disseminated." (citation from the Strategic Framework for FAO). FAO is a huge content provider for the World Wide Web. The FAO website has more...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/af229e/af229e00.pdf
Issued on
2002
In this paper we present our experience of using Web services to support interoperability of data sources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. We describe the information bus architecture based on Web services to assist with multilingual access of data stored in various data sources and...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
A Global Mapping System for Bambara Groundnut Production
Issued on
2001
This is the first study that estimates the potential production for any underutilised crop on a global basis. Our long-term aim is to demonstrate how this approach, initially for bambara groundnut, can be used to assess the potential productivity of many underutilised food crops at locations beyond their current distribution...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Metadata Framework for Resource Discovery of Agricultural Information
Issued on
2001
Network technologies have helped to lower many of the geographical barriers that impede access to information resources, but other obstacles have appeared in their place: one is the heterogeneous use of resource descriptions; another, more serious, is the lack of resource description at all. Resource description varies depending on the...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
A Dublin Core Application Profile in the Agricultural Domain
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2001
This report outlines a proposed metadata framework for resource discovery of agricultural resources, and in particular to describe information resources in agricultural sciences. The overall work is the result of a collaborative effort between a number of partners in the agricultural community and the Library and Documentation Systems Division of...
Report
Peer-reviewed
Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Issued on
1999
The role of information systems in food security in transitional countries
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
The New Direction for FAO`S Information Services. The world Information Centre (WAICENT)
Issued on
1998
The specific components which make up the World Agricultural Information Centre at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are described in this paper. WAICENT comprises three principal components which are interactive and complementary: FAOSTAT, for the storage and dissemination of statistical information, FAOINFO, which covers hypermedia...
Report
Peer-reviewed
WAICENT, World Agricultural Information Centre: FAO's information gateway
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1997
The specific components which make up the World Agricultural Information Centre at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are described in this paper. WAICENT comprises three principal elements which are interactive and complementary: FAOSTAT, for the storage and dissemination of statistical information, FAOINFO, which covers hypermedia...
Journal article (Print/Paginated)
Peer-reviewed
The World Agricultural Information Centre of FAO
Issued on
1996
WAICENT - World Agricultural Information Centre - has been operating since the beginning of this year under the auspices of the Information and Documentation Systems Division (GIL) in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).