Extracting general or intermediate level terms is a relevant problem that has not received much attention in literature. Current approaches for term extraction rely on contrastive corpora to identify domainspecific terms, which makes them better suited for specialised terms, that are rarely used outside of the domain. In this work, we propose an alternative measure of domain specificity based o...

This report documents the impacts of international maize breeding research in eastern and southern Africa. It draws on information from a comprehensive 1998/99 survey of public and private maize breeding and seed production organizations active in the region. In many countries of eastern and southern Africa, policy reforms introduced in the 1980s and 1990s encouraged private sector participatio...

Nuovo soggettario (NS), edited by the National Central Library of Flo-rence, is the Italian subject indexing tool for various types of resources. It has been JLIS.it. Vol.4, n.1 (Gennaio/January 2013). Art. #5474 p. 225 G. Bergamin, The Nuovo soggettario as a service for the linked data world developed in compliance with the IFLA recommendations, and other internationalstandards in the ...

Harnessing worldwide biodiversity data requires integrating myriad pieces of information, often sparse and incomplete, into a global, coherent space. To do so, projects like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Catalog Life Encyclopedia have set up platforms that gather, consolidate, centralize billions records from multiple sources. This approach lowers entry barrier for scientists wi...

Plant breeding by researchers has become increasingly isolated from the plant breeding of farmers. Collaborative plant breeding (CPB) offers the possibility of bringing these two plant breeding traditions together to increase the usefulness of new crop varieties to farmers, especially small-scale farmers working in stress environments with limited external inputs. This paper presents a framewor...

At FAO, we are committed to helping combat and eradicate world hunger. Information dissemination is an important and necessary tool in furthering this cause—we need to provide consistent, usable access to information for users in places doing this very work. And, the wide recognition of FAO as a neutral international centre of excellence for agriculture positions it perfectly to lead in the dev...

For the past 20 years, ontologies have become more and more popular in various research fields such as Web technologies, databases, information retrieval methods, and so forth. The first goal of this chapter is to answer general questions about ontologies, such as: What exactly is an ontology? What is the purpose of ontology? Which types of systems use an ontology? The second goal of the chapte...

This paper introduces CODA: Computer-aided Ontology Development Architecture. CODA is both an architecture and an associated framework supporting the transformation of unstructured and semi-structured content into RDF (Resource Description Framework) datasets. The purpose of CODA is to support the entire process embracing data extraction and transformation, identity resolution up to feeding sem...

In recent years, several evolutions have drastically transformed the way researchers as well scientific and technical information (STI) services interact with literature. The amount pace of publications are skyrocketing, whether in journals conferences or through pre-publication repositories (e.g., arxiv.org), such that it is increasingly difficult to keep up, find make sense relevant articles....

The long term ecological research and monitoring is resulting in a vast amount of data describing environmental characteristics, drivers and pressures. Despite harmonisation efforts in the field of methods and observation designs within the frame of LTER Europe or other related networks, different management solutions, together with a varying set of terms and concepts describing the data, are o...