Eurovoc Conference - Mind the lexical Gap -

On November 18-19 I participated in a workshop organized by the Publication office of EC in Luxembourg on the role of EUROVOC in underpinning the Semantic Web. (https://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/?q=node/936)

After my  3rd attempt, I finally succeeded. Twice I tried to book a Dinner at the "Altes Zollhaus" in Kreuzberg. Twice I was rejected.  This Tuesday I succeeded without problems and the place was not overcrowded as I feared. Seems to be that Friday is a very bad day to book at the "Zollhaus".

Well, another noteworthy dining experience after Gruenfisch yesterday.   We had:

www.gruenfisch.de/ has good reports wherever you find something written about the Restaurant. I went there on October 22 and I only can confirm all the good things that have been said about this Restaurant.

My delightment started with the initial offering of fresh made bread with a spread from basil and dried tomatos and a wonderful sicilian olive oil.

Berlin 8 Conference 2010 -

2 days in Beijing now.  Food is as good as last time, traffic as bad. The workshop with ISTIC was amazingly good, many enthusiastic graduate and post graduate students who participated in the discussion.  I am excited for Berlin8 next week.

I visited today the Olympic village and the new center of CCTV, then later Opera in the new Beijing Opera house. Woww, finally great ideas and great architecture.   Neverthelesse I must admit,  I like most Guangzhou, Shanghai is too chic, and Beijing is too capital, but anyway.

ISTI workshop on Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Link 2010 -

This Institute belongs to the

Da auch mein zweiter Anlauf, im alten Zollhaus essen zu gehen, scheiterte (es war ausgebucht auch schone eine Woche vorher), akzeptierte ich den Vorschlag vom Zollhaus in ihrem "Schwesterrestaurant"  Rotisserie Weingruen zu buchen.

At the end of April I participated in the World Meeting of IAALD, The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists. About 200 colleagues from overall of the World participated.

Swimming and snorkeling around Pulau Manukan I made some considerations on nature conservation.

Yesterday I represented FAO in the final review of the D4Science project (https://www.d4science.eu) here in Brussels.

D4Science is a project to build Virtual Research Infrastructures, in which scientist can collaborate despite of different locations or disciplines.