The 7th AOS workshop is a big success. It is unquestionable one of the best session of AFITA 2006. We have always between 25 and 40 participants (overall more than 46 people participated) in the workshop and the level of the presentations is really high. Participants came from India, China, Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, France, USA and FAO. 15 out of 16 presentations were given. The very positive side this time was the lifely discussion. Often presenters were also interrupted with questions.

Highlights: the Monsanto presentation about the unification of information systems at Monsanto through several Ontologies, the presentations from IIT Kanpur with the Ontology/thesaurus browser, NIC, New Delhi, which used the standards proposed by us, simply by consulting the AIMS website, The documentation centre of the Indian institute of statistics, heuristic metadata acquisition and the implementation of the AGROVOC plug in. There was no single presentation of a bad level. Always amazing the Japanese, which are now using semantic technologies, wherever appropriate. The entire MetBroker Application was ported to OWL.
Seishi Ninomya reported that WMO has made recommendation to use OWL and RDF to describe meteorological data. This has been implemented in the Japanese Metbroker System. 25 databases with 12000 Weatherstations all over the world are part of Metbroker.(https://www.agmodel.org)
Fotos still to be added

You can access my presentation at the workshop <a href="files/AOS_2007_Bangalore/01-7AOS2006_Keizer_AOSintro.ppt" target ="new"> here </a>

All other presentations are published at<a href="https://www.fao.org/aims/pub_aos7.jsp" target ="new"> here </a>