Last week I was in one of the Italian National Libraries, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale based in Florence.
The round table – focused on the rebirth of thesauri – took place in the Tribuna Dandesca, a beautiful room in the left side of the building.

The scope of the conference was the presentation of the Vanda Broughton book, Essential Thesaurus Construction, a direct book that explain in a clear and clever way what is a thesaurus and how to build a new one.

At the conference attended different speaker: Piero Cavalieri from the Carlo Cattaneo University, Anna Lucarelli and Melissa Tiberi from BNCF, Anna Filograno from the Library of Regional Council in Puglia and Mario Guerrini from Florence University.

It was a splendid afternoon among librarians, thanks.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze by MoniPeni, Flickr

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze by MoniPeni, Flickr

I’m involved in a knowledge management project for the Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

One aim of the project is to redesign the thesauri management system realized by FAO for a second edition of this open-source software.

At the moment the project is carried out by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission and British Geological Survey (BGS).

The FAO has published a news about the project that is partially available in the Assembla web site.

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