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Agricultural Information Management Standards Web Site

Agricultural Information Management Standards Web Site. Gauri Salokhe Margherita Sini {Gauri.Salokhe, Margherita.Sini}@fao.org. Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site. The specific goals of the site are:

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Agricultural Information Management Standards Web Site

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  1. Agricultural Information Management Standards Web Site Gauri Salokhe Margherita Sini {Gauri.Salokhe, Margherita.Sini}@fao.org

  2. Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site • The specific goals of the site are: • to establish a network of partners who adhere and agree to the primary goal of the initiative "to provide one-stop and free access to information management approaches and tools", • to bring together information about currently available standards (such as thesauri, classification schemes, metadata sets, ontologies, controlled vocabularies) used in management of Agricultural Information, • to encourage the re-use of these standards to facilitate interoperability between information systems, • to increase awareness of these freely available resources, • to promote sharing of good practice examples, and • to provide channels for communication between different actors in the community.

  3. Agricultural Information Management Systems Web sitehttp://www.fao.org/aims/

  4. AIMS for Networking • Lists partners who agree to share and commit themselves to contribute staff time to support the activities • Provides list of currently running projects between the partners • Provides discussion forums for people of common interests to come together and discuss metadata and vocabularies, tools and share knowledge. http://www.fao.org/aims/contacts.jsp http://www.fao.org/aims/intro_partners.jsp

  5. Vocabularies • Browse, search and download the AGROVOC Thesaurus • Access the AGROVOC Webservices • Browse Knowledge Organization Systems by domain (e.g. Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry) or type (e.g. Classification schemes, Ontologies) • Updates on the AOS Concept Server project and its current status • Glossary and Frequently asked Questions about vocabularies http://www.fao.org/aims/aos.jsp

  6. Metadata Standards • The Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) and its work • Metadata schemas used for description of different resource types: Documents, Events, Organizations, Projects, Plants, Statistical Metadata etc. • Standard application profiles currently in use by Partners of the initiative • Glossary and Frequently asked questions about vocabularies http://www.fao.org/aims/intro_meta.jsp

  7. Tools • Lists of tried and tested freely available tools for : • Creating, editing and managing metadata/Catalogues • Mapping, merging, validating, editing and managing Ontologies • Maintaining and refining Thesauri • Validating, parsing, aggregating services XML/RDF data http://www.fao.org/aims/tools_meta.jsp

  8. Publications (and other useful resources) • Lists of published journal articles, conference papers and presentations, concept/position papers and usage guides • Lists and presentations from the Coherence and AOS workshops. • Training Resources: IMARK Kits • Free online journals discussing information management http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_feature.jsp

  9. News and Events • Upcoming events • Latest News • Presentations and reports from past events http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_workshops.jsp

  10. Contact us! • Gauri Salokhe • Margherita Sini • {Gauri.Salokhe, Margherita.Sini}@fao.org

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