Paris, 2 July 2007
EFITA newsletter / 317 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
South Asian Conference on Water in Agriculture: management options for increasing
crop productivity per drop of water
15 - 17 November 2007
See: http://www.igkvwia.in
See: http://www.igau.edu.in
Contact: Dr. S. R. Patel
E-mail: srpatelsr(a)yahoo.com
International symposium on Agrometeorology and Food Security (INSAFS) by
the association of Agrometeorologists of India
18 - 21 February 2008
See: http://www.agrimetassociation.com/int-conf
See: http://www.cropweatheroutlook.org/int-conf
Contact: Dr. S. R. Patel
E-mail: srpatelsr(a)yahoo.com
FAO's activities on Agricultural Information Management Standards available
in multiple languages from the Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the world's fastest-growing, cooperative, free content, on-line
encyclopaedia. There were 600,000 visitors per day by the end of 2005; there
are more than 4 million articles in 200 languages. The amazing success of Wikipedia
is not only due to its "open edit" policy, or its collection of high-level
knowledge on all conceivable themes. It represents a global community which
holds to a particular web philosophy; many of its followers are top-ranking
specialists of the same breed which feeds its domain knowledge freely into the
Open Archives movement.
FAO's work for the promotion and furthering of information management standards
for the world agricultural community is now documented on the Wikipedia pages.
At present, the principal arguments treated on Wikipedia are:
* The Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES), the metadata standard developed
by FAO for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources;
* The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) set up to serve as a reference initiative
that structures and standardizes agricultural terminology in multiple languages
for use of any number of systems in the agricultural domain and provide several
services, with the aim of achieving more interoperability between agricultural
systems;
* FAO's Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus (AGROVOC), structured to cover the
terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food
and related domains (e.g. environment); and
* The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) initiative, working
to facilitate information sharing, and to overcome the problems created through
resources being located often in proprietary applications and using dissimilar
data models. Frequently, information system designers are unaware of existing
design methodologies, data description standards or freely available tools or
applications. This project is working to promote existing standards and contribute
to the creation of new ones.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agmes
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Ontology_Service
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGROVOC
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Information_Management_Standards
You can browse other language versions by cliking on the language versions available
from the left-hand side of each page.
Contact: Gauri SALOKHE
E-mail: Gauri.Salokhe(a)fao.org
Thank you very much for EFITA newsletter.
This magazine is very valuable, useful and wonderful one.
I read it thoroughly all the pages.
I am very interested in Agricultural Economics, Food Production, Poultry and
Egg Economics. Recently my major studies are Slow food and slow tourism in Japan
as well as other countries. I am sorry to say that I couldn't attend Glasgow
congress next month.
Since I was elected President of Tokai gakuin University since last April, I
will have some meetings at Univ.
Contact: Michio SUGIYAMA
E-mail: sugimm21(a)ybb.ne.jp
The new software OPACSA: maximum control - minimal cost
The co-existence of GMO and conventional products in the processing chain
requires control measures that enable stakeholders to decide on the acceptance
or rejection of a specific lot. However, control cannot be performed separately
on each grain, and the more extensively the analysis is conducted, the more
expensive it becomes. So, where is the optimum - or are there several ones?
A new statistical optimisation software helps to find the cheapest and most
reliable mode of analysis by sub-sampling, and this is the first programme that
takes economic factors into account and enables the use of inexpensive qualitative
methods. Co-Extra spoke with co-developer André Kobilinsky (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas)
about the new software OPACSA.
See: http://www.coextra.eu/researchlive/reportage851.html
Contact : Yves BERTHEAU
E-mail: yves.bertheau(a)versailles.inra.fr
El alcoholismo!!... no es el problema!!!
MUY IMPORTANTE Y ESCLARECEDOR!!!
El alcoholismo no es el problema
Precaución en las calles...
ATENCIÓN!!!
Afirman que el 23% de los accidentes de tránsito son provocados por el consumo
de alcohol.
Eso significa que el otro 77% de los accidentes son causados por los hijos de
puta... que beben agua, jugos, refrescos y otras porquerías.
¡¡CUÍDENSE DE LOS ABSTEMIOS!!
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