FAO 1/ AOS Community Margherita Sini & Gauri Salokhe Food and Agriculture Organization 8 th AOS Workshop – 22 Sept. 2007

FAO 2/ What is AOS?

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FAO 4/ What is the AOS Community? a “community of practice” –an informal network –common projects –common requirements –common interests

FAO 5/ How do we communicate? s 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 (

FAO 6/ 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

FAO 7/ What have we worked on? Tools –Visualization Tools –Topical Browsing –AGROVOC Thesaurus management tools AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench –Metamaker Documents Events Organization description

FAO 8/ Where is all this information?

FAO 9/ Thank you