A few weeks ago, IE members Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Jaakko Lappalainen and Alberto Nogales attended the WP leader meeting at FAO premises in Rome. The purpose of the meeting was the preparation for the next project review in Athens in mid December 2013. The first step to define a storyline to show the reviewers how AgINFRA impacts target communities in agricultural science.
Night view of the city of Thessaloniki
Enayat presenting the ODS project to LinkedUp consortium members
The Open Discovery Space Project is hosting a series of webinars on open educational resources. The first will take place on November 29 at 16:00 CET and will be about the Green Learning Network. Madalina Ungur, from AgroKnow Technologies, will be responsible for delivering the webinar.
OER (Open Educational Resources) could be defined as materials offered freely and openly for their open use and adaptation for teaching, learning, research and development. The Green Learning Network (GLR) is a good example of how the OER paradigm can be implemented.
Registration for the webinar can be done through the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V1gwfBzShGXcHP1e7jxuFGk3AIyyJKbtVFegYsMrbHo/viewform
From Tuesday to Thursday last week, several members working for the IERU team in the project -namely Vassilis, David Martin and Salvador- were in Graz, Austria, for the 6th Organic.Lingua project meeting. We were missing Giannis, who participated from home as he was only 3 days to have a baby (he didn’t know by then that his daughter would be born this monday, congratulations!). So, the meeting took place in the Amedia hotel and was hosted by our Knowledge Center – Graz colleagues, which really did a fantastic job with the organization and recommendations for social activities.
During this meeting we revisited the vision and current status of the project using a scenario where different personas showed their perspective of the Organic.Edunet portal and their contribution to the project. It was a very important meeting as it the project has entered in the last 6 months before its end so the technological achievements are evident and tangible now, but the sustainability plan and the best practices document that will gather all the recommendations from our 3 years effort are right now being discussed and polished as the most important pending issues at this stage. The Ontology Evolution Services, aimed at generating suggestions for the evolution of the ontology based on the use of User Generated Content, the design and planning of the open pilots and the final touches to the Language Technology Framework were other hot topics in the discussions that we had. Below these lines, some snapshots taken during these intense 3 days (including some social activities by the way!).
IE member Salvador participated in the technical meeting that was held in the CELI premises in Turin during last Tuesday and Wednesday. The main topics of the meeting were related to ontology alignment, as this is something that will greatly enhance the Organic.Edunet approach both to the direction of information retrieval and Linked Open Data.
A new member of the CELI team, Marco, was introduced and actively participated in the discussions. Other participants were old fellows Giannis, Mauro, Andi and Alessio.
From left to right Mauro (FBK), Andi (KC), Alessio (CELI), Giannis (UAH-AK), Marco (CELI) and Salvador (IE-UAH).
From 27th to 30th of May was organized the 4th agINFRA project meeting. It took place in Budapest, Hungary, at Sztaki Institute. IE members Miguel Ángel Sicilia, Jaakko Lappalainen and Alberto Nogales attended to it.
During the meeting some deliverables were presented, also the progress of the project and future issues were discussed. In parallel the 2nd technical training school was carried out. Here Jaakko Lappalainen and Alberto Nogales learnt how to port data components to the agINFRA infrastructure.
We keep on researching!
IERU members Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Jaakko Lappalainen and the new member Alberto Nogales, attended the 2nd biannual meeting of this project in Rome. The host of this meeting was the Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata the first two days, and the rest was hosted by FAO at their headquarters in the downtown of Rome.
During the sessions, the partnership went deeper on design issues on the project and presented the status of several deliverables. The work on SemaGROW keeps on going!
At FAO took place the last 2 days the LINQ2013 conference, where IE member David Martín presented his recent research work
Also Miguel-Angel Sicilia gave a keynote speech… the future of the world seems to be decided here at FAO!
From June 5-7, the ICCS2013 took place in Barcelona at the CCIB, a wonderful part of the city with an amazing architecture very close to the sea. On such a wonderful venue, IE member Jaakko Lappalainen, AgroKnow’s CTO Giannis Stoitsis and NCSR-Demokritos researcher Pythagoras Karampiperis organized a new edition of the KREAM workshop. The IE group has been the organizer for four years of the KREAM workshop in the ICCS conference. The Knowledge REpresentation and Applied Models and Metadata in computational science (KREAM) workshop aims at gathering high quality research results about the use of knowledge representations, schemas and models in computational science for concrete applications, the design of e-science infrastructure support or papers dealing with the analysis, development or evaluation of the representations themselves.
As part of the workshop, Jaakko presented a research work titled “Automatic experiment repetition using e-Science research infrastructures, ontologies and linked data”, while Giannis presented a keynote “Using Knowledge Representation Models and Metadata to develop e-science applications for the Agricultural Research Community”, and on behalf of Nikos Manouselis “Layered Evaluation of Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering for Scientific Paper Recommendation”. On the other hand, Pythagoras gave another keynote titled “Using a POWDER Triple Store for boosting the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures”.
It was very nice for all of us to meet other presenters at the workshop, and hope to meet them again next year!
Below, some photos of the trip:
Last week, IE member Enayat Rajabi attended the second Herbal.Mednet meeting in Athens, Greece (during 30th and 31st of May). The project partners discussed the latest progress of the project and provided each other with updates on the technical and general aspects of their work. Enayat presented UAH’s progress on the Task 3.1 (Platform Design) and Task 5.1 (project website).
Victor Gonzalvez from SEAE, project coordinator beside Enayat, during Enayat’s presentation
AgriMoodle as the e-learning platform of the project was explained by him and different functionalities of the platform discussed as well. In consequence, partners discussed different issues regarding the remaining parts of each task and agreed on a timeline to catch the deadlines.
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