The current Controlled Experiment of the VOA3R project is collocated with the 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment, which is hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011, and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective.
Important dates:
Submissions open until: October 5, 2011
Online Discussions/Comments until: October 12th, 2011
Workshop: October 12th, 2011 14.00-18.30
Location: tbcImportant dates:
Submissions open until: October 5, 2011
Online Discussions/Comments until: October 12th, 2011
Workshop: October 12th, 2011 14.00-18.30
Detailed Program of the Workshop:
12.30 - 13.30: Registration
13.30 - 14.00: Opening Ceremony of the MTSR 2011 Conference
14.00 - 15.30:
- Agriculture-Related Concepts in Non-agricultural and General Thesauri. [Tomaz Bartol]
- Publishing and Linking Semantically Annotated Agro-environmental Resources to LOD with AGROPub. [Sasa Nesic et al.]
- Thesaurus Maintenance, Alignment and Publication as Linked Data: The AGROOVOC Use Case. [Caterina Caracciolo et al.]
- Subject Classification with DITA Markup for Agricultural Learning Resources. A Case Example in Agroforestry. [Thomas Zschocke]
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.30:
- Intellectual Property Rights in Environmental and Natural History Collections: A Preliminary Discussion. [Effie Tsiflidou et al.]
- Developing a Metadata Application Profile for Sharing Agricultural Scientific and Scholarly Research Resources. [Nikos Diamantopoulos et al.]
- Introducing a Content Integration Process for a Federation of Agricultural Institutional Repositories. [Vassilios Protonotarios et al.]
- POWDER as Enabling Technology for the Semantic Interoperability of Agricultural Repositories. [Pythagoras Karampiperis et al.]
- A Model for Skills and Competences and Its Application in the Agricultural Sector. [Simon Grant et al.]
17.30 - 18.30: Keynote Speaker: Marcia Zeng
18.30 - 19.30: Welcome Cocktail
Please refer to the MTSR 2011 Conference main pages for information on registration and accommodation.
