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.

johannes keizer presented the GODAN secretariat at the VDI Wissens forum and gave a presentation on the FAIR principle in the Big Data World.

Since the APAN meeting 42 in Hongkong, there is engagement with GODAN. After my presentation at Hongkong to he APAN board, APAN joint GODAN. For APAN 43 in Delhi I was invited as a keynote speaker at the closing plenary

I just signed contracts with CABI () and Agroknow ().  With CABI I will continue my work in the GODAN secretariat (https://www.godan.info). With Agroknow I will work as senior advicer in the eROSA project ().