Linked Open Data in Agriculture - Lectures
MACS-G20 Workshop in Berlin, September 27th and 28th, 2017
Presentation slides on request (D. Martini)
Key note
Paul Groth: The roots – Linked Data and the foundations of successful agriculture data
Research data sharing
Birte Lindstädt: Publishing of agricultural research data as kind of data sharing – the publication process at Life Sciences Repository of ZB MED (
Antonio Sánchez-Padial: REDIA – an approach to interoperability in a long tail of data scenario
Philipp Gärtner: The Bonares Infrastructure for open soil and agricultural research data
Lisette Mey: Classifying content in the land sector – establishing a vocabulary in a highly political environment
Visualisation, navigation and search
Jerzy Weres: Programming technologies supporting management of linked open data in the domain of cereal grain drying and storage
John Fereira: Visualization of Linked Open Data – eye candy for VIVO
Daniel Herzig-Sommer: Searching Linked Data Graphs with GraphScope
Daniel Martini: Linked Data architecture components at KTBL
Availability and security
Michael Brobbey: Data rights, privacy and security
Vik Vandecaveye: Data ownership, legal issues, privacy and security
Ansgar Bernardi: Sustainability of Linked Open Data – a key challenge for agricultural applications
Ruthie Musker: Available open datasets in agricultural technology and production
Frank Termer: Open Data – status quo, potential and challenges
Vocabularies, classifications and thesauri
John Fereira: Agrovoc – three ways
Valeria Pesce: Semantic challenges in sharing dataset metadata and creating federated catalogs: the example of the CIARD RING
Sangita Dubey: Linking open statistical data - the role of statistical classifications
Johannes Keizer: Agrisemantics, a vision for an infrastructure for semantic-based interoperability of agricultural data
Data models
Hendrik van den Bosch: Towards global soil data exchange
Earth observation and remote sensing
Holger Lilienthal: The Research Center for Agricultural Remote Sensing (FLF) – a data source for agricultural information based on Sentinel satellite data
Silke Migdall: ESA’s Food Security Thematic Exploitation Platform “Supporting sustainable food production from space”
Bernd Hoffmann: Decision support for crop protection – Pest identification using UAV Technology
Uwe Voges: Linking and finding earth observation data on the Web
Towards an Agricultural Technology Sharig platform
Nie Fengying, Jieying Bi: Introduction of an Agricultural Technology Sharing (ATS) platform
Open geodata
Raul Palma de Leon: Publication of Inspire-based agricultural Linked Data
Tomáš Řezník: Integration of open land use, smart point of interest and open transport maps using RDF
Rob Knapen: Obstacles in standards and spatial thinking for Linked Data in agriculture
Applications in livestock farming
Martin Wischenbart: Data integration and analysis in precision dairy farming – a semantic data warehousing approach
Toby Mottram: VirtualVet a business to map global animal disease
Paul Kasoma: Making livestock farming smart and sustainable through accessing open information and using ICTs
Thomas Selhorst: Social networks in the pig barn – implications for the infection dynamics of MRSA
Wang Zhong: How many Information systems does a pig hoggery need – and how-to make them useful
Supply chain and traceability
Christopher Brewster: Blockchains and Linked Data for agrifood value chains
Liisa Pesonen: Employing the principles of My Data and blockchain to build trust in farm data sharing
Dongpo Deng: Construction and reuse of linked traceable agricultural product records
Monitoring and documentation
Raed Fehri: Implementing an open source database to monitor water related SGD (SGD-6) in Tunesia
Anto Raja Dominic: The pesticide risk indicator model SYNOPS implemented in web-based applications to assess the risk to the environment and the impact of mitigation measures
Antonis Koukourikos: VITIS – a Linked Data toolkit for a data-centric grape economy
Christopher Baker: Decision support for agricultural consultants with semantic data federation and Linked Data