facilitating data discovery & sharing among agricultural scientific networks
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Facilitating data discovery & sharing among agricultural scientific networks
Nikos Manouselis, CEO [email protected]
An extraordinary company that captures, organizes and adds value to the rich information available in agricultural and biodiversity sciences, in order to
make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful.
http://www.agroknow.com
indicative partners & clients• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)• World Bank Group• UK’s Dept for International Development (DFID)• Michigan State University (MSU)• Wageningen University & Research (WUR)• French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA)• International Centre for Research in Organic Food
Systems (ICROFS)
within a collaboration…
• many people, from several groups, from different organisations
• working on common topics of interest• sharing information about what they do–within the network–with the rest of the world
typical challenges• sharing topic-specific information from larger,
generic data sources– e.g. food safety publications & data sets from the WB open
repositories
• combining information from multiple data sources– e.g. all food safety course & OER offerings from several
institutions• providing simple, seamless search services to users– e.g. combining information coming in different metadata
formats, through both harvesting and querying protocols
next challenges
• search & results mashing up different information/data types from multiple sources
• linking from one information resource to another, regardless of format & type
• going beyond metadata, into data searching, processing, visualising etc.