AIMS

Eurovoc Conference - Mind the lexical Gap

20/11/2010

On November 18-19 I participated in a workshop organized by the Publication office of EC in Luxembourg on the role of EUROVOC in underpinning the Semantic Web. (http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=node/936) The publication is office is strongly pushing EUROVOC as a cornerstone on an European Linked Open ...

Drupal: indexing nodes with Agrovoc (without a module)

16/11/2010

Instructions to implement manual Agrovoc indexing (with an Agrovoc search popup) in Drupal without the need of a dedicated module. 1. Taxonomies to create A) A taxonomy with no multilingual settings for Agrovoc codes. B) A multilingual taxonomy (with translation) for Agrovoc terms. Following the steps below, at the moment of ...

Launch of the NeOn Foundation

10/11/2010

Following the official launch of the NeOn Technologies Foundation there have been set up, some communication tools, branding and initial promotion material to make the Foundation visible to the community: The mailing list for all the registered members has been set up using Google groups. The address is neon-foundation@googlegroups....

Proposal for the IFLA Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) - Request for support

08/11/2010

The IFLA Information Technology section, with support of Cataloguing section, Classification and Indexing section, and Knowledge Management section, proposes the creation of a Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) within IFLA. The SWSIG intends to be a platform where interested professionals could gather, and undertake whatever tasks are needed to ...

[New Publication] Linked Data for Fighting Global Hunger: Experiences in setting standards for Agricultural Information Management

04/11/2010

FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, has the global goal to defeat hunger and eliminate poverty. One of its core functions is the generation, dissemination and application of information and knowledge. Since 2000, the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) activity in FAO’s Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building ...