Dear all, The AIMS <http://aims.fao.org> 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@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) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.