"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
The first agINFRA project meeting has taken place in between 8-10 November in Rome, Italy and it was hosted by FAO in their premises.
“To develop an infrastructure for scientific agricultural data and to improve service deployment for data bytransferring scientific and technological results from the agricultural field into real outcomes. Moreover agINFRA is proposing to create a high interoperability between agricultural and other data resources”.
The AIMS team at FAO has a leading role in the agINFRA project representing main usercommunities and bringing the requirements of theses user communities into the project
The Chinese see the handling of Climate Change as a "carbon reduction" problem. This is deeply flawed and will not resolve the problem. No carbon reduction plan will ever stop the increase of CO2 in the next 30 years significantly. There are other ways to go......
In September 2011 our team published the multilingual Agricultural Concept Scheme AGROVOC in the Linked Open Data Cloud. This was the fruit of a year long restructuing of the traditional thesaurus into a concept based scheme that represents knowledge in the area of agriculture and related areas. Within very few weeks 1000 s of out and inlinks from other vocabularies were produced to link to AGROVOC.