Publications
Report
Non peer-reviewed
LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 : Report on how to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data(LOD) enabled bibliographical data
Issued on
2013
LODE-BD aims to support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (directly or indirectly). The LODE-BD recommendations are applicable for structured data describing bibliographic resources such as articles, monographs, theses, conference papers, presentation materials, research reports, learning objects, etc. – in print...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
A reference space for information management standards, tools and methodologies: the AIMS portal
Issued on
2013
The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) portal provides to information specialists in the agricultural domain good practices and methodologies on the management and dissemination of agricultural information by using widely accepted standards and methods. AIMS is a resource container where users can find experiences in applying semantic technologies and information...
Presentation
Non peer-reviewed
La Web Semántica y su aplicación en servicios de información : El caso de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura
Issued on
2013
Presentation about "Open Data and the Semantic Web" introducing to the public some of the products that have been developed by AIMS and its partners, like AGRIS, AGROVOC, AgriDrupal, AgriOcean DSpace and the AIMS portal.
Presentation
Non peer-reviewed
Use and integration of vocabularies in digital repositories
Issued on
2013
Free Webinar on the use of controlled vocabularies offered to people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information related to climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in...
Conference paper
Non peer-reviewed
Migrating bibliographic datasets to the Semantic Web: The AGRIS case. Semantic Web.
Issued on
2013
In this paper we describe the ongoing move of the AGRIS repository toward a decentralized approach based on Linked Open Data (LOD) (Bizer, et al., 2008). This move has progressively required modifications and enhancements to data, models and workflows. The growing demand for freely accessible data has brought a rise...
Presentation
Non peer-reviewed
How to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing LOD-Enabled Bibliographic Data
Issued on
2013
The webinar presents the LODE-BD Recommendations - Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data- which aims at providing bibliographic data providers of open repositories with a set of recommendations that will support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data (LODE-BD).
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Towards Linked Agricultural MetaData: Directions of the agINFRA Project
Issued on
2013
The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and KOS used to classify and an-notate them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of con-tributing to a LOD of agricultural data. In particular we look at germplasm...
Peer-reviewed
Preliminary Work Towards Publishing Vocabularies for Germplasm and Soil Data as Linked Data
Issued on
2013
The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and KOS used to classify and an-notate them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of con-tributing to a LOD of agricultural data. In particular we look at germplasm...
Presentation
Non peer-reviewed
AgriOcean Dspace : Versión personalizada de DSpace para redes agrícolas y acuáticas
Issued on
2013
n 2010 FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE decided to collaborate on customizing DSpace. The main reasons: Both organizations support synergistic document repository communities with similar metadata standards and controlled vocabularies: the AGRIS (FAO) and Odin- OceanDocs (UNESCO-IOC) communities. Both organizations were independently of each other working on a customization of DSpace. In...
Conference paper
Peer-reviewed
Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROVOC Use Case
Issued on
2012
The AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is now published as linked data. In order to reach this goal AGROVOC was expressed in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and its concepts provided with dereferenceable URIs. AGROVOC is now aligned with ten...