GFAR and FAO presented a paper at the Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics : 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'07), Greece, October 11-12, 2007. 
The paper, entitled "Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File", has been published in the Conference proceedings and will be pusblished in the Springer post-proceedings.
The paper is available on the website of the Special Session:
http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/mtsr07/papers/MTSR07_AgriculturalSession_Pesce_etal.pdf