Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative announces metadata standard

The "Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative", a collaborative effort between a number of partners in the agricultural community, the World Agricultural Information Centre of FAO, are pleased to announce a draft recommendation for a metadata specification based on the Dublin Core™ Elements and Qualifiers, as well as extensions which were considered necessary for Agricultural Information. The relative documentation has now published on the FAO web-site at http://www.fao.org/agris/MagazineArchive/magazine/TaskForceonDCMI.htm. More information on the "Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative" can be found at http://www.oneworld.org/thinktank/iktools/agstandards.html or by contacting Mr. Stephen Katz, Chief of the WAICENT/FAOINFO Dissemination Branch at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (http://www.fao.org)