What to do? (Standards & Intl. Cooperation)
Establish, adopt, and promote metadata and content management standards for agricultural information published on the Web
Adopt existing open and International syntax and grammar standards (e.g. DC, XML, RDF(S))
Seek guidance from experts in the community (Agstandards Project)
Implement a Pilot Project with existing portal initiatives (e.g. WAICENT, AGNIC NOVAGate, BIOME, GFIS)
Publish the specification/schema of all adopted standards in an authoritative on-line repository at www.fao.org