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AOS Community

Margherita Sini & Gauri Salokhe

Food and Agriculture Organization

8th AOS Workshop – 22 Sept. 2007

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What is AOS?

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What is the AOS Community?• a “community of practice”

– an informal network– common projects– common requirements– common interests

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How do we communicate?• E-mails and Discussion Groups

– agris: 280– agris-ap: 113– agrovoc: 194– agstandards: 164– fao-metadata: 19– webagris: 181

• Flash meetings

• Workshops and E-Conferences

• AIMS website (www.fao.org/aims)

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What have we worked on?• AGROVOC and Ontologies

– Content Management– Development of Concept Server– Domain ontologies

• Metadata– Standards to share information

through application profiles– Guidelines for creating and sharing

metadata

• Collaborative projects

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What have we worked on?• Tools

– Visualization Tools– Topical Browsing– AGROVOC

• Thesaurus management tools• AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench

– Metamaker• Documents• Events• Organization description

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Where is all this information?

www.fao.org/aims

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Thank you