"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
From September 6-7 ICRISAT in Hyderabad hosted a workshop on OpenAccess publishing in Indian Agriculture. I was invited as a speaker. My presentation is attached. There are many open Archives in India, but no up to now in Agricultural research.
I am participant in the workshop “ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation”, which takes place during the Science Forum (https://www.scienceforum2009.nl/) June 16-17.
Attached is the thinkpiece, which I am delivering together with Valeria Pesce from the Global Forum for Agricultural Research.
it is our great pleasure to inform you that our Special Issue on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics has been published at the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO). You may find the papers online at: https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152&year=2009&vol...
From March 24-28 we met in Addis Abbaba for the first face2face meeting of the CIARD Content Management Taskforce. Background material on CIARD is at https://www.ciard.net/index.php?id=388. I see the CIARD initiative as the most important community of practice to achieve a collaborative space in Agricultural Science and Technology Information.
I was invited to participate in a workshop "Pathway to a European Career" from March 9-13 at Schloss Rauischholzhausen. The Workshop is organized by the International Research Training Group Giessen/Marbur-Moscow. The program is attached.
Semantic Universe asked the FAO Country Profiles team to write an article about geopolitical ontology and FAO Country Profiles. Now, the article is published into their webiste. In addition, in 2009 Semantic Technology Conference , one of top conferences in the semantic technology, we will introduce our work about geopolitical ontology and FAO Country Profiles to the public.
I am part of a working group with the title "Global Research Library 2020". Goal of this group is to discuss and to shape the Research Library of the future (https://www.grl2020.net/). Next meeting of this working group is in February in Taiwan. I attach the position paper, which I submitted for this workshop.
This position paper was also presented at the Rome ShareFair . I posted about this sharefair at https://www.johanneskeizer.com/?q=node/738.
The UN based Rome agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP) and the CGIAR organised a knowledge fair from January 21-22. This was the first of it's kind and could be considered an adventure.