"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)
This morning I visited the Harbin Institute of Technology. It is a city of it's own within Harbin. HIT financed the express road to the airport, there are two 4 Star hotels on the University ground....
From October 18 to 27 I am on a trip to China and Malaysia with two main goals:
a) to find a partner in China to develop with us a reading assistant for quick automatic translations from Chinese to English/French/Spanish and from English to Chinese.
b) to meet MIMOS representatives in Kuala Lumpur and to establish a formal collaboration on the hosting and further development of the AGROVOC conceptserver.
The UN based Rome agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP) and the CGIAR organised a knowledge fair from January 21-22. This was the first of it's kind and could be considered an adventure.
Mechanisms for Documenting and Disseminating Outputs
of Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
CAB International Africa Regional Centre
12-14 May 2004 - Nairobi, Kenya
An Expert Consultation was co-organized with CAB International with the overall aim of developing a strategic vision for documentation and dissemination of agricultural knowledge and research in Africa.
Adviser for metadata and vocabulary issues in the e-publishing and virtual library elements of the trust. Participation in the Business meeting of the e-publishing initiative in Cali, Colombia with and advisory role for metadata standards.
An important activity in 2004 is the Organization of AGRIS/IMARK capacity building workshops. In
January a workshop was organized in Hyderabad (India) for Participants from South Asia, in late
March in Accra (Ghana) and in May in Nairobi (Kenya