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British Broadcasting Corporation launches an Ontology page

23/04/2014

The Britishi Braodcasting Corporation (BBC) has launced a new page detailing their internal data models. The page provides access to the ontologies the BBC is using to support its audience facing applications such as BBC Sport, BBC Education, BBC Music, News projects and more. These ontologies form the basis of ...

Map of Agriculture seeks Internships for Summer 2014 in Oxfordshire UK

17/04/2014

Our colleagues from the Map of Agriculture (MOA) project in Oxfordshire, England are seeking talented interns to join their projects. MOA is a GIS-based application showing financial returns and production yields, together with other relevant information, across a wide variety of regions and crops/farming systems. Internships are sought in ...

VOWL: Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies

16/04/2014

I found interesting information about visualization of a ontology schema called "the Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies (VOWL)". It defines both a visual language for the user-oriented representation of ontologies and provides graphical depictions for elements of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) that are combined to a force-directed graph layout ...

AGRIS runs in the "LinkedUp Vidi Competition"!

15/04/2014

AGRIS has submitted its brief (see below) for the LinkedUp Vidi Competition. The Veni, Vidi and Vici competitions are explained here. ***AGRIS Submission**** AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a database with more than 7.7 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. The Food and Agriculture ...

ProQuest announces the Roger K.Summit Scholarship

15/04/2014

I would like to share the news about Roger K.Summit Scholarship announced by ProQuest open to all Library and Information Science students worldwide. Eligible AIMS users are encouraged to apply, below is the text of the announcement from ProQuest. ***Announcement*** ProQuest is proud to present the Roger K. Summit ...