The latest and upcoming events: RSS feed http://www.fao.org/aims/ http://www.fao.org/copyrigh.htm en Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:20:46 +0200 FAO-AGRIS-CARIS@fao.org Agricultural Information Management Making learning resources available online on a global scale, could be an enabler for the development and welfare of agricultural and rural populations. One mean to achieve this aim, is the development and promotion of a global infrastructure that will facilitate sharing and reusing of learning resources on topics related to agricultural and rural development. To this end, the experience of stakeholders that are involved in the development and operation of agricultural learning repositories would be of extreme value. These stakeholders can promote and share guidance, standards, technologies, tools, recommendations, and good practices in a variety of topics: Designing, Developing, Adapting, and Repurposing Learning Resources; Setting up Learning Repositories using Open Standards and Technologies; Populating Learning Repositories with Reusable Learning Resources and Interoperable Metadata; Designing and Implementing a variety of Quality Assurance Procedures and Criteria for Learning Resources; Inter-connecting Learning Repositories in Global Federations to share and exchange Resources and Metadata; and Deploying Regional Portals that provide Access to Learning Resources in Repositories around the world through Federated Services.The aim of the e-Conference on Agricultural Learning Repositories (AgLR 2008) is to initiate the dialogue around these topics, involving organizations and individuals that are active in the field of agricultural learning repositories. The AgLR 2008 e-Conference is going to be an electronically facilitated discussion that will take place through a DGroups mailing list. It is the first of a series of events that are supported and promoted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force. http://aglr.aua.gr/ http://aglr.aua.gr/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:20:46 +0200 Information Management 2008-04-24 2008-06-05 Rome XXX E-Conference Food and Agriculture Organization agriculture metadata standard Rural development ontology semantic web Learning information management A "Special Session of the Agricultural Ontology Service Initiative: semantic problems and semantic solutions in agricultural knowledge and information products" will take place as part of the IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference. The aim of this session is to showcase practical applications of semantic tools. The contributions will be of specific relation and relevance to agriculture and related subject areas and are not expected to be generic papers about semantic tools. http://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/index.htm http://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/index.htm Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:54:00 +0200 Information Management 2008-08-25 2008-08-25 Tokyo JPN Special Session Food and Agriculture Organization agriculture metadata standard ontology semantic web semantic standard application ontology Knowledge and information systems information management The aim of the AgroLT 2008 Workshop is to bring together researchers and implementers that are working on the design and development of technology-enhanced learning systems and services to support the needs of the agricultural and rural communities. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present the results of their work, exchange experience, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of the agricultural domain as an application field for learning technologies. http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/agrolt/2008/ http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/agrolt/2008/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:12:00 +0200 Information Management 2008-09-19 2008-09-19 Athens GRC Workshop Food and Agriculture Organization Agricultural University of Athens Greek Standardization Organization and Technological Education Institution of Athens Learning education teaching agriculture Rural development metadata standard The purpose of this two-day Agricultural Ontology Service workshop is to bring together Information and Knowledge Managers from Agricultural Institutions, who are working on development of semantic standards and their application. This workshop will focus on assessing the work done since the first workshop of 2000 in Rome to date. The achievements of the past seven years and the lessons learnt will be used to pave the road for the next steps. http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_aos8.jsp http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_aos8.jsp Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:12:00 +0200 Information Management Libraries 2007-09-21 2007-09-22 Rome ITA Workshop Food and Agriculture Organization Information Management ontology engineering ontology ontology learning metadata metadata standard Information and knowledge management experts in agriculture to review ongoing collaboration and agree on future priorities and actions. http://www.e-agriculture.org/102.html http://www.e-agriculture.org/102.html Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:20:46 +0200 Information Management Libraries 2007-09-23 2007-09-24 Rome ITA Consultation Food and Agriculture Organization Information Management AGRIS Information systems The aim of the Special Session on Agricultural Metadata and Semantics of MTSR'07 is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of the agricultural knowledge domain as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services. The Special Session will include: 6 full paper presentations and 3 poster presentations, 1 keynote presentation about the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) initiative. http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_mtsr07.jsp http://www.fao.org/aims/pub_mtsr07.jsp Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:37:46 +0200 2007-10-11 2007-10-12 Corfu GRC Special Session Food and Agriculture Organization Information Management Information systems The DSpace Community with the collaboration of FAO of the United Nations, CASPUR and CILEA are pleased to announce that DSpace Meeting is going to take place on October 17-19, 2007 at FAO (Rome, Italy). The aim of the DSpace Users Group Meeting 2007 is to bring together the various initiatives and key players that are working on innovative applications and mature installations of DSpace in order to share their experience and to advance in the development of the repository software. DSpace Users Group Meeting 2007 aims to serve as a discussion forum where DSpace Community will present the last developments achieved. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of the DSpace as an open-source platform for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works. The conference programme comprises a workshop and the DSpace Users Group meeting starting on Wednesday, 17th October, with a workshop featuring the outcomes of Google Summer of Code and a parallel session on IR and organizational issues, followed by two tutorials on DSpace. The general sessions will start on Thursday morning, October 18th and conclude by 3.30 pm on Friday, October 19th with 12 technical presentations, a poster session and a tutorial about Manakin project. http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=11 http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=11 Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:37:46 +0200 Information Management Libraries 2007-10-17 2007-10-19 Rome ITA Meeting Food and Agriculture Organization Information Management Information systems