During the Agricultural Data Interest Group I participated in a meeting of the GACS/GODAN working group. Main result of this meeting was the redefinition of GACS as "Global Agricultural Concept Space" in stead of "Scheme".   The existing scheme in GACS is only an exemple for many more schemes to come to create a real interoperation hub for vocabularies in the AgriFood System.  Basis of the discussion was a position paper authored my Tom Baker and myself ();

From today on I will not use Facebook anymore to publish originary content.  I will reopen my blog at johanneskeizer.com, which I stopped in 2013.  I want to be able to  manage my pictures, thoughts and news as I like, I want to maintain control. I don't want to give this control to Facebook.

In November 2017 I presented the eROSA project at the EOSC stakeholder workshop in Brussels.    I gave a presentation about the Infrastructure needs of the Agri-Food community

During a Conference on the potential of big data in Agriculture, on wich keynotes were given by Takuji Kiura an myself,    I was appointed Guest Professor at the Information and Documentation Center of the Chinese Academy of Science in Chengdu.  I am proud of the collaboration with Chai Miaoling and her team and I am looki

Also in 2017 I represented GODAN at the G20 -MACS meeting (Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists).  Together with Daniel Martini I gave a presentation about the results of working on open data in 2017, and especially on the Linked Open Data workshop organized by the Germann G20 presidency

In September 2009 I visited the Digital Research Institute of GKAH.  GKAH is one of the biggest agricultural state companies in China. Particularly, it is among the 10 biggest Pig producers.  GKAH aims to  make their pig production more efficient and    more sustainable.  ERI is in charge to find worldwide state of the art methodologies.  In 2017 ERI visited pig research institutions in UK, France and Denmark.

I did not publish since 2012 on this site and went the easy way of throwing sentences into facebook. It's wrong. We don't need monopolies on the web!

At the end of August 2017 I gave presentations on Agrisemantics and GACS at th 44th meeting of the Asian Pacific Advanced Network and at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.

July 2015: I represented the GODAN initiative at the meeting of the European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture. Parallel to the EFITA conference the first stakeholder workshop of the eROSA project took place, where I gave a presentation on different views on Infrastructure.