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  • [New Publication] A distributed architecture for harvesting metadata describing organizations in the agriculture sector

    Providing easy access to updated, accurate and semantically meaningful information about organizations working in the agriculture sector is of primary importance in agricultural information management. Many databases of these organizations already exist but none are comprehensive and all differ in coverage (often overlapping), semantic organization, being up-to-date, quantity and quality ...
  • [New Publication] Metadata application profile for agricultural learning resources

    Capacity and institution building is a core function of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO has recently started the "Capacity and Institution Building Portal" to provide structured access to information on FAO’s capacity and institution building services and learning resources. To ensure that the ...
  • [New Publication] Achieving OAI PMH compliancy for CDS/ISIS databases

    CDS/ISIS is an Integrated Storage and Information retrieval System of United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which is widely used for managing bibliographical reference ensuring high quality content. The main purpose of this paper is to present the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture ...
  • FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

     common vision that may serve as an enabler for sustainable development,environmental preservation, and fighting hunger in the world, is the involvement, collaboration and coordination of activities dealing with the production, organisation and exchange of agricultural knowledge. Numerous technical and subject experts are working on related topics, tackling with issues ...
  • AGROVOC is now available in Polish!

    The latest release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus has now been updated on the AIMS web site. The online version includes new concepts and revision of existing ones. The Polish version was released by the Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza, the Central Agricultural Library (CBR) in Warsaw and has 16,998 Descriptors and 11,919 Non-descriptors. Any ...