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Delegation of Chinese Academy of Science visits Orvieto

On September 13th I arranged the visit of a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Science (Institutes in Lhasa and Chengdu) to Orvieto. The delegation was welcomed in the city hall by mayor Germani and Councelor Cannistrà. Both sides emphasized the necessity of strengthening cultural, scientific and economic relations.

eRosa project successfully completed

jk Chnia The eROSA project (e-Infrastructure Roadmap for open science in agriculture and food - https://erosa.aginfra.eu/front) has been successfully completed. The Roadmap forsight paper has been submitted to the EU and has been published at https://zenodo.org/record/1314186#.W6J4begzYwG.The final evaluation meeting was hold on September 13.

eROSA presentation at CAAS, September 2018

On my recent trip to China I had the chance to present the outcomes of the eROSA project to my friends of the Agricultural Information Institute at CAAS. The CAAS people are very much interested in the follow up and want to be an active partner of the agINFRA community.

Delegation of GKAH in Germany and the Netherlands

Last week I accompanied a delegation from Guangdong Animal Husbandry group in a Study tour to Germany and Wageningen. China is the biggest producer of pigs. China becomes also always more the greatest market for pigs. China is now part of 6 among the 10 biggest trade streams. GK group is a big state farm and its Animal Husbandry Section is one of the big pig producers.

On Europe and countries

On Europe and countries - thoughts after Brexit

Pizzeria Antica Arte Napoletana

This place is situated at one of the most famous and beautiful squares of Orvieto. We ended up there, because it was the 2nd of May, all on the Corso Restaurants were closed and Cecilia absolutely wanted to see the Rome Liverpool match.

So I entered a place that looks like a Fast Food Place and into which I normally would not put my foot into, Luckily I did.

Joint session of GODAN, agGateway and APAN at APAN45

On March 28, I chaired a session data interoperability, which was jointly organized by the 3 entities. (https://apan.net/meetings/apan45/session.php?id=18#sn1) APAN1

Ridimensioning Facebook

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.

EOSC Stakeholder workshop in Brussels

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

G20, MACS Meeting 2017

Also in 2017 I represented GODAN at the G20 -MACS meeting (Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists). macs 2017 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

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