WAICENT Focal Point in the Czech Republic
WAICENT Focal Point in the Czech Republic was established at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Information in Prague (IAFI).
IAFI has a long tradition of co-operation with Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations. It started in 70ies, when Institute joined new initiative aiming to build a common information system for science and technology in agriculture and related subjects, based on a collaborative network of institutions joined the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology.
1975 - IAFI established National AGRIS Input Centre
1993 - Institute becomed FAO Depository Library
1995 - National Input Centre extended activities by CARIS input
1997 - FAO Multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC was translated to the Czech language
1998 - IAFI becomed member of Agroweb CEE Network and maintains Agroweb Czech website
2000 - took over maintenance of website of the Czech National Committe for Cooperation with FAO
2003 - Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic entrusted Institute to serve as WAICENT Focal Point in the CR
Contacts:
Institute of Agricultural and Food Information
Slezska 7
120 56 Prague 2
Czech Republic
Tel: +420-2-2701-0111
Fax: +420-2-2701-0117
e-mail: uzpi@uzpi.cz
Contact person:
Zdenka Silhova
Tel: +420-2-2701-0340
Fax: +420-2-2701-0117
e-mail: silhova@uzpi.cz
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