FAO reports on agricultural information standards available online

In recent years, the FAO has been developing and disseminating global standards and procedures for agricultural information management and exchange. As part of the series entitled Agricultural Information and Knowledge Management Papers, FAO has now made available 22 titles capturing much important work in this area. Titles in the series include:

• FAO's role in Information Management and Dissemination
• Applying New Trends to the Management of Bibliographic Information on Agriculture
• Metadata Exchange without pain: the AGRIS AP to harvest and exchange quality metadata
• Report on an FAO Ontology and Terminology System
• Using Web Services to Interoperate Data at the FAO
• Metadata Framework for Resource Discovery of Agricultural Information
• Creating the Semantic Web: the Role of an agricultural Ontology Server
• A Dublin Core Application Profile in the Agricultural Domain

More about FAO work in this area is available from http://www.fao.org/aims/.

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