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Land Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana
Assesses the process of rural land registration in Ghana and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups.In Ghana, deeds registration has been in place since colonial times, and enables right holders to record their land transactions. However, very little rural land has actually been affected by this registration process. The research shows a general lack of awareness of the registration process among the majority of cash and food crop farmers. High monetary and transaction costs and a long and cumbersome process also constrain use of deeds registration.
Progress on Land Rights in 2014: Our Year in Review
From negotiations over responsible agricultural investment in Rome to new research on gender equality in Rwanda to important steps in legal reform in Tajikistan, land rights continued to be a priority issue for the global community in 2014. Here are some of our favorite pieces on land rights from USAID and our partners from the past year.
- Investing in Smallholder Farmers to Feed the Future
By Tim Fella (Devex)
Council of Ministers Passes South Sudan Land Policy
On February 22, the South Sudan Council of Ministers passed the USAID-assisted draft Land Policy with minimal amendments. The Land Policy will now head to the National Legislative Assembly for review. While much work remains to be done, this event marks a notable step on South Sudan’s path toward developing institutions and policies for effective land governance.
The U.S. Remains Committed to Protecting the Land Rights of People Around the World
U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in RomeOctober 19, 2011 ROME – The United States government commends the United Nations Committee on Food Security (CFS) for the extraordinary work that it has done on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Lands, Fisheries and Forests, achieving consensus on approximately seventy percent of the document during the July and October negotiations. The U.S.
Data Model for Land Portal (exposed as LOD)
Introduction
The model is designed on top of the following existing vocabularies:
- Dublin Core for properties common to most resources
- The Bibliographic Ontology for more specialized properties for bibliographic resources
- The FOAF vocabulary for properties of entities like persons and organizations
- The Schema.org vocabulary for properties of all relevant entities (creative works, persons, organizations, events, places)
- The SKOS vocabulary for all related concepts
The result is in line with the recommendations of the AIMS LODE-BD (Recommendations for LOD-enabled Bibliographic Description).
Table 1. Namespaces used in the Land Library RDF data model
Prefix | Namespace |
---|---|
bibo | http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ |
dc | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
dct | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
edm | http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/ |
foaf | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ |
geonames | http://www.geonames.org/ontology# |
odrl | http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/ |
org | http://www.w3.org/ns/org# |
owl | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# |
prov | http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# |
rdf | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# |
rdfs | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# |
schema | http://schema.org/ |
skos | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# |
Data Model Entities and properties
This is the list of all the data model entities:
- Land Library Resource
- News
- Blog Post
- Event
- Organization
- Organization Type
- Person
- Region (Country, Continent/Subcontinent)
- LandVoc Theme
- LandVoc Concept
- Land Library Resource Type
- Language
- License
- Profile (of a person)
- Project
Entity: Land Library Resource
RDF types:
dct:BibliographicResource, bibo:Document, schema:CreativeWork, prov:Entity, edm:ProvidedCHO
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/library/resource/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Land Library Resource
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:name | literal |
Subtitle | dct:alternative | literal |
Abstract or Description | dct:description, schema:description, bibo:abstract | literal |
Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s) | dc:contributor | literal |
Corporate Author | dct:creator, schema:author | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Resource Type | dct:type | resource (Entity: Land Library Resource Type) |
Date of publication | dct:issued, schema:datePublished | literal (xsd:date) |
Language | dct:language | resource (Entity: Language) |
Publisher | dct:publisher, schema:publisher | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Data Provider | prov:wasDerivedFrom, schema:provider, edm:dataProvider | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Pages | dct:extent | literal |
Duration | dct:extent, schema:duration | literal |
ISBN / Resource ID | dct:identifier | literal |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Originally publish at | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownAt | resource |
Resource URL | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownBy | resource |
Attached file | schema:url, bibo:uri, edm:isShownBy | resource |
Image/Thumbnail | schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl | resource |
License | dct:license, schema:license | resource (Entity: License) |
Copyright details | dc:rights | literal |
Entity: News
RDF types:
schema:NewsArticle
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/news/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: News
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:headline | literal |
Author(s) | dc:creator, schema:author | literal |
Date of publication | dct:issued, schema:datePublished | literal (xsd:date) |
Language | dct:language, schema:inLanguage | resource (Entity: Language) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Source | dct:source, schema:citation | resource |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Image/Thumbnail | schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl | resource |
Entity: Blog Post
RDF types:
schema:BlogPosting, sioc:Post, foaf:Document
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/blog-post/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Blog Post
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Title | dct:title, schema:headline | literal |
Body | schema:articleBody | literal |
Author | sioc:has_creator | resource (Entity: Person) |
Date of publication | dc:date, dc:created | literal (xsd:dateTime) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Image/Thumbnail |
schema:image, schema:thumbnailUrl, schema:sharedContent |
resource |
Entity: Event
RDF types:
schema:Event
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/event/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Event
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, schema:name | literal |
Body | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
Start date | dct:date, schema:startDate | literal (xsd:date) |
Image | schema:image | resource |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Contact / Event organiser | schema:organizer | literal |
More information (Webpages) | schema:url | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related Concepts | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Organization
RDF types:
foaf:Organization, schema:Organization, prov:Entity, org:Organization
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/organization/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Organization
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, schema:name, foaf:name | literal |
Description | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
Acronym | dct:identifier, org:identifier | literal |
Logo | schema:image | resource |
Website | schema:url, foaf:homepage | resource |
Focal point | ||
Phone number | ||
Postal address | schema:address | literal |
Location | - | - |
Affiliated organization | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Members | schema:member | literal |
Working languages | lingvo:workingLanguage | resource (Entity: Language) |
Attached file | dct:references | resource |
Organization Type | dct:type | resource (Entity: Organization Type)) |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Organization Type
RDF types:
skos:Concept
Values: Taxonomy: Organization types
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:AltLabel | literal |
Parent (Organization Type) | skos:broader | resource |
Entity: Person
RDF classes:
sioc:UserAccount
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | foaf:name | literal |
Entity: Region
It could be a country or a continent/subcontinent
Entity: Country
RDF types:
skos:Concept, schema:Place, dct:Location, geonames:Feature,lb:Country
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/geo/{ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code (aka ISO3)}
Graph (SPARQL):
http://countries.landportal.info
Values: Subset of Taxonomy: Regions
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | literal | |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code (aka ISO3) | literal | |
Entity: Continent/SubContinent
RDF types:
skos:Concept, schema:Place, dct:Location, geonames:Feature
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/geo/{Area code (UN M.49)}
Graph (SPARQL):
http://regions.landportal.info
Values: Subset of Taxonomy: Regions
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, dct:title, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition, dct:description, rdfs:comment | literal |
Area code (UN M.49) | dct:identifier, skos:notation | literal |
Synonyms | skos:altLabel | literal |
Parent region | skos:broader | resource (Entity: Region) |
Entity: LandVoc Theme
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/voc/landvoc/theme/{theme-ID}
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Theme
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
ID | skos:notation | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
Image | schema:image | resource |
Related LandVoc concepts | skos:related | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: LandVoc Concept (Curated)
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
Agrovoc URI
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Concepts
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel | literal (with lang) |
Entity: LandVoc Concept (Drupal Raw)
RDF types:
skos:Concept
URI pattern:
Agrovoc URI
Values: Taxonomy: LandVoc Concepts
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
Agrovoc URI | skos:exactMatch, owl:sameAs | resource |
Entity: Land Library Resource Type
RDF types:
skos:Concept
Values: Taxonomy: Land Library Resource Types
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Synonym | skos:AltLabel | literal |
Parent (LL Resource Type) | skos:broader | resource |
Entity: Language
RDF types:
skos:Concept, lvont:Language
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/voc/language/{ISO 639-1 code}
Values: Taxonomy: Languages
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, skos:prefLabel | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Language code (ISO 639-1) | lvont:iso639P1Code | literal |
Language code (ISO 639-3) | lvont:iso639P3Code | literal |
Entity: License
RDF types:
skos:Concept, odrl:Policy
URI pattern:
RDFLicense URI
Values: Taxonomy: Licenses
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Name | skos:prefLabel, rdfs:label | literal |
Description | skos:definition | literal |
Acronym | skos:notation, dct:identifier | literal |
Synonym | skos:altLabel | literal |
RDFLicense URI | skos:exactMatch, owl:sameAs | resource |
Entity: Profile
RDF types:
foaf:Person
URI pattern:
https://landportal.org/users/{username}
Values: People
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type |
---|---|---|
Title | foaf:title | literal |
First Name | foaf:firstName | literal |
Last Name | foaf:lastName | literal |
Description | dct:description, vivo:overview | literal |
Picture | foaf:depiction, schema:image | resource |
Public email | foaf:mbox | literal |
Website | foaf:homepage | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Entity: Project
RDF types:
foaf:Project
URI pattern:
http://data.landportal.info/project/{UUID}
Values: Content Type: Project
Properties | RDF predicates | Predicate type (details) |
---|---|---|
Name | dct:title, rdfs:label, schema:name, foaf:name | literal |
Description | dct:description, schema:description | literal |
ID | dct:identifier | literal |
Acronym | - | literal |
Logo | schema:image | resource |
Extension | - | - |
Project value | - | literal |
Contact information | schema:contactPoint | literal |
Websites of the project | schema:url, foaf:homepage | resource |
Donors | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Implementers | - | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Associated staff | - | resource |
Geographical focus | dct:spatial, schema:spatialCoverage | resource (Entity: Region) |
Themes | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Theme) |
Related concepts (LandVoc) | dct:subject, schema:about | resource (Entity: LandVoc Concept) |
Data Provider | schema:provider | resource (Entity: Organization) |
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University
On September 30, 2002, USAID awarded the Food Security III Cooperative Agreement (under a Leader with Associates [LWA] Agreement mode) to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. It was a potential 10-year project, with renewal after the first 5 years contingent on an evaluation.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
As of January 1, 2016 NTNU merged with the University College in Sør-Trøndelag, the University College in Gjøvik and the University College in Ålesund. The decision regarding the new faculty/departmental structure will be made in the spring of 2016.
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CIESIN’s mission is to provide access to and enhance the use of information worldwide, advancing understanding of human interactions in the environment and serving the needs of science and public and private decision making.