Explore and create with Open Data | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-12-12

Summary:

"For the past three years, the Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger by region and country, has been published as Linked Open Data (LOD). The GHI highlights successes and failures in hunger reduction and provides insights into the drivers of hunger, as well as food and nutrition insecurity. It does so by combining three equally weighted indicators—undernourishment, child underweight, and child mortality—into a single comprehensive index. Building upon this work, IFPRI’s Communications and Knowledge Management Division recently published the raw, structured data behind the GHI, which is available here in Resource Description Framework (RDF). This RDF file includes GHI scores and underlying indicator values for countries from 1990-2013 ..."

Link:

http://www.ifpri.org/blog/explore-and-create-linked-open-data

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.lod oa.food_insecurity oa.tools

Date tagged:

12/12/2014, 08:25

Date published:

12/12/2014, 03:25