11/30/05
Release of the Webportal for Agricultural Information Management Standards

11/03/05
Presentation at the Annual Conference of ASIST

10/15/05
Expert Consultation on Agricultural Research and Technology Information Systems English (US)

J. Keizer's group was the organizer of track 2 of the expert consultation. He himself gave a
presentation on "The role of bibliographic databases today and Open Archive Services in Agricultural
Science and Technology"

09/29/05
NKOS workshop at the European Conference on Digital Libraries English (US)
The specification of a mapping schema linking the Chinese agricultural thesaurus to AGROVOC
Presentation

09/11/05
Dublin Core 2005 English (US)

Member of the Programme Committee and Keynote Speaker

07/22/05
6th AOS workshop at EFITA 2005

07/01/05
eNRIC Project Manager

06/18/05
Second Workshop on Coherence in Agricultural Information Systems

06/15/05
Open Forum on Metadataregistries

Margherita Sini from Keizer' s group presents The Agricultural Ontology Service - a FAO initiative for
more coherence in agricultural information Systems. Presentation

05/15/05
Preconference Planning Committe of the IAALD World Conference

The Role of Open Access Publishing in Science

This program offers a panel discussion covering open access publishing and the importance of the initiative in the developing world. Open Access models, institutional repositories, as well as the librarian’s role will also be discussed. The panel will cover the following topics:
Open Access: An overview, Gerry Mckiernan, (Iowa State University, Ames Iowa, USA)
Open Access and Commercial Publishers. Thomas Krichel, Research Papers in Economics (RePEC) [repc.org] Also Link to Thomas Krichel
New models of Open Access: PLoS. Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science
The importance of OA initiative for developing countries. Pipa Smart, Interntational Network for the Availability of Scienctifc Publications
New role of Libraries in an Open Access publishing world: Edith Hesse, Constulative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Institutional Repositories, a Backbone for Open Access: Stephen Rudgard, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

01/15/05
Participation in the APAN Multilingual Working Group

Having the similar background of agriculture and natural resources in the region, there is a lot of information that should be shared among the Asian countries. The big diversity of the culture in language and character sets of the region, however, prevents us from sharing it. In the last few years, several emerging technologies for practical multilingual information exchange have been proposed. This workshop will provide an opportunity for us to discuss about the technologies that make information exchange possible even under multilingual environments

01/11/05
Participation in the EU Feasibility Study FASTER
The FASTER study was created by the Commission under FP6 as a feasibility study for an advanced
systematic documentation, information and communication tool in the field of ethical issues in
science, research and technology. To that end, the study has identified and evaluated criteria
necessary to create an infrastructure of ethics for an advanced systematic documentation, information
and communication tool in the field of ethical issues in science and research.
Paper