Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - http://www.fao.org
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernise and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates into English as "let there be bread". As of 8 August 2008, FAO has 191 members states along with the European Union, Faroe Islands and Tokelau which are associate members. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.
Key Persons
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Johannes Keizer | E-mail: Johannes(dot)Keizer(at)fao(dot)org |
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Johannes Keizer is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. For the last 10 years he is leading the AIMS team. (“Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services). The AIMS team takes care of the multilingual agricultural concept scheme “AGROVOC”, facilitates AGRIS (“the International Information Systems for Agricultural Science and Technology”) and works together with GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) on the CIARD RING (“Roadmap to Information Nodes and Gateways”). The AIMS website (http://aims.fao.org) has become one of the most important access points for standards, tools and advice in agricultural information management. Johannes Keizer has a master degree in biochemistry and biophysics and a PhD in Biology. Before turning his interest to the management of scientific data he worked as a research fellow on eco-toxicological aspects of organo-phosphorous pesticides. He is member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board. He lives in Rome and Berlin. |
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Imma Subirats | E-mail: Imma(dot)Subirats(at)fao(dot)org |
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Imma Subirats is a Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006. Before that she worked at the Government of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain). She holds two MSc in History and in Library and Information Science. She is actively involved in the promotion of open access in agriculture and related sciences, notably through the CIARD network, assuring the quality of repository content through implementing metadata standards, thesauri, and other forms of authority control. She is also the co-founder and the Executive Coordinator of E-LIS (E-prints in Library and Information Science), the largest open archive in library and information science. |
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Valeria Pesce | E-mail: Valeria(dot)Pesce(at)fao(dot)org |
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Valeria Pesce has been working as web architect and information management specialist for the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) since 2005. After formal education in literatures and library science, she received professional training in information science and computer programming. In recent years, working for GFAR in strict collaboration with FAO, she has been focusing on architectural issues in agricultural information management and exchange. More specifically, she has been recently working on the conceptualization and implementation of the CIARD RING, a directory of agricultural information sources, and on solutions for standards-based agricultural information management leveraging the Drupal open source Content Management System. |
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Yves Jaques | E-mail: Yves(dot)Jaques(at)fao(dot)org |
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Yves Jaques (MSc SoftDev) is an Information & Knowledge Management Officer at the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Holding posts over the years with the Fisheries & Aquaculture Department, the Statistics Division and the Knowledge and Capacity for Development Branch (OEKC), he has focused on IT and IM/KM strategies and solutions in support of FAO's mission to end world hunger. He has participated in cutting-edge knowledge engineering projects (NeON, D4Science) as well as bricks-and-mortar data management and capacity development in challenging Sub-Saharan environments (CountrySTAT). He has worked to build crosswalks between document-like objects and statistical data through extensive participation in standards groups such as SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange). He currently manages development of OEKC's linked data infrastructure while also representing the department in a number of cross-cutting organizational IT and IM/KM projects and initiatives. |
