My group got a grant from a specific program of FAO a for a joint project between FAO and the Chinese Accademy of Agricultural Science. Within this project AGROVOC will be mapped to the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus. The lead of the project is with FAO in Rome. In Beijig a team of expert is established to do the mapping. Goal is to get deeper access to Chinese agricultural resources and to give better possibilities for Chinese speakers to access FAOs information.

This is a major achievement in the construction of the Agricultural Ontology Service

11/30/05
Release of the Webportal for Agricultural Information Management Standards

11/03/05
Presentation at the Annual Conference of ASIST

10/15/05
Expert Consultation on Agricultural Research and Technology Information Systems English (US)

J. Keizer's group was the organizer of track 2 of the expert consultation. He himself gave a
presentation on "The role of bibliographic databases today and Open Archive Services in Agricultural
Science and Technology"

09/29/05
NKOS workshop at the European Conference on Digital Libraries English (US)
The specification of a mapping schema linking the Chinese agricultural thesaurus to AGROVOC
Presentation

09/11/05
Dublin Core 2005 English (US)

Member of the Programme Committee and Keynote Speaker

07/22/05
6th AOS workshop at EFITA 2005

07/01/05
eNRIC Project Manager

06/18/05
Second Workshop on Coherence in Agricultural Information Systems

06/15/05
Open Forum on Metadataregistries

Margherita Sini from Keizer' s group presents The Agricultural Ontology Service - a FAO initiative for
more coherence in agricultural information Systems. Presentation

"Eine Weltinnenpolitik is an der Zeit, wie sie Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker gefordert hat und wie sie den universalistischen Ideen von Leibniz und Kant entspricht. Die gegenwaertigen Probleme sind global und koennen auch nur global geloest werden. Das betrifft die Oekologie, die Resourcen, das multinationale Kapital, die mediale Vernetzung, den Nord Sued Konflikt, die Nichtverbreitung von Atomwaffen, den Terrorismus. Es kommt nicht auf einen grosssen revolutionaeren Akt an, sondern auf eine Perspektive, die dorthin weist und Schritte, die dahin fuehren......

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Another widespread conviction in Chinese thought, on that contrasts especially with early Indian thought, is the belief that life in this world can be improved. Achieving a golden age in this world was possible.

At the cosmological level all the major philosopical schools in China shared ideas related to ancestors and heaven discussed in the last chapter. They also shared an underlying assumption that the cosmos came into being on its own without a creator of the sort so important in most western thinking. Insteasd of focusing on mechanisms that set things into motion, whicha are important where there is an assumption of a creator, these thinkers emphasizied the organismic interconnections among all the constituent parts, stressing relationships and concurrences much morethan causes.

He (Mencius) reminded rulers of the Mandate of heaven, telling them to their faces if they did not rule well, heaven would bring it about that their people would rebel and oust them. He made it the responsibility of rulers to see to it that their people had enough to eat at every meal in good years and could avoid starvation in bad years. ...
A ruler who did not fulfil his rople properly, Dong (c179-104 BC), would directly disturb the balance of heaven and earth, causing floods, earthquakes and other natural calamities.sexcam

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150 zu Contessa tanzende Studenten unter Regenbogenfahnen. Das ist ungefaehr so konsistent wie Che Guevara auf einer Friedensdemonstration. Aber zumindestens nicht klaeglich.

Alle Voelker wollen den Frieden, keine Regierung - das ist Ausdruck der Klaeglichkeit der Linken.
Sie ist petulante geworden.

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