[Sigiii-l] Mark your agenda! New Free Webinars @ AIMS on Linked Open Data

[Imma Subirats]

Dear all,

The AIMS Metadata Community of Practice is glad to announce a series
of webinars called Linked Open Data @ AIMS that will take place from
December 2012 to February 2013.

-- Linked Open Data --

The traditional approach of sharing data within silos seems to have
reached its end. From governments and international organizations to
local cities and institutions, there is a widespread effort of opening
up and interlinking their data. Linked Data, a term coined by Tim
Berners-Lee in his design note regarding the Semantic Web
architecture, refers to a set of best practices for publishing,
sharing, and interlinking structured data on the Web.

Linked Open Data (LOD), a concept that has leapt onto the scene in the
last years, is Linked Data distributed under an open license that
allows its reuse for free. Linked Open Data becomes a key element to
achieve interoperability and accessibility of data, harmonisation of
metadata and multilinguality.

-- About Linked Open Data @ AIMS --

Six specialists will introduce the concepts of Linked Open Data and
Semantic Web in the 6 languages used on AIMS - English, French,
Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian - with the objective to
contextualize the initiatives related to Linked Open Data currently
taking place within the AIMS Communities of Practice.

-- Agenda and Speakers --

For each webinar an announcement with more detailed information, like
title and abstract, will be distributed in advance.

Webinar in English | 4th December 2012 | 04:00 pm Rome Time
Speaker: Tom Baker, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

Webinar in Spanish | 11th December 2012 | 04:00pm Rome Time
Speaker: Daniel Vila, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid.

Webinar in Arabic | 15th January 2013 | 11:00am Rome Time
Speaker: Ibrahim Elbadawi, UAE Federal eGovernment

Webinar in French | 22nd Janury 2013 | 11:00am Rome Time.
Speaker: Christophe Guéret, Department of Artificial Intelligence at
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Webinar in Chinese | 20th January 2013 | 02:00am Rome Time
Speaker: Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent
State University

Webinar in Russian | 5th January 2013 | 11:00am Rome Time
Speaker: Irina Radchenko, Centre of Semantic Technologies, Higher
School of Economics

-- Who Should attend --

Linked Open Data @ AIMS is not restricted to the agricultural
information management community, anyone interested in an introduction
to Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web may join.

-- How to join Linked Open Data @ AIMS --

The webinars are open to anyone but places are limited. If you are
interested to attend any of the webinars, send an e-mail to
AIMS at fao.org at least one day before, containg the following
information:
• your name
• your affiliation
• your role
• your country
• webinar(s) that you would like to attend

-- Sponsors --

As part of the CIARD Movement, Linked Open Data @ AIMS is co-sponsored
by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and
the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
(IAALD).

Announcement published at http://aims.fao.org/linked-open-data-webinars-at-aims

Best regards,

Imma Subirats
Knowledge and Information Management Officer
OEKC - FAO of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome (Italy)