SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)* Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence(Switzerland)* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(Italy)AIM & TOPICSThe aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment of MTSR'09 is to bring ...

AGROVOC is remodeled using OWL, the Web Ontology Language, into a more semantically structured system called the Concept Server. For developers of agricultural information management systems, AGROVOC Concept Server web services beta version has been released to incorporate AGROVOC Concept Server into their applications via web services. Using web services, ...

CTA (http://www.cta.int/) and Wisard International (http://www.wi.wur.nl/UK/) have been developing a DLIO Library that has the AGRIS AP as basis for data entry, data storage and data dissemination. FARA and SADC have also invested in this development.This Object Library is a fully ...

The AGROVOC Thesaurus is currently under a profound revision aimed to make it more coherent, consistent, and more meaningful. The revision is being done in partnership with ICRISAT, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, and coordinated by FAO staff. The main ...

The FAO Country Profiles is now embedding news and events related to agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development published by FAO partners and registered in the innovative and fast-growing AgriFeeds service.AgriFeeds is a service that allows users to search, filter and re-publish news and events from several RSS feeds. ...