At the beginning of December I conducted together with my colleague Peter Ballantyne, the IAALD president an evaluation of the ILRI InfoCenter . ILRI wanted an external and indipendent evaluation of the developments that had taken place in the restructuring of the ILRI library in the last years.

This paper from my group was presented at Dublin Core 2009

[New Publication] A Web-based tool to manage multilingual thesauri: the example of AGROVOC - 10th biennial International Conference (ISKO 2008), August 5th-8th, 2008, Montreal (Canada) [AIMS]

From August 24-27 I participated in the joint meeting of AFITA (Asean Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture) and IAALD (International Association of Agricultural Information Management Sepecialists). http://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/program-list.htm

On invitation of Dr. Wang Zhong from the polytechnical University of Guangzhou I gave today a presentation with the title "The global knowledge society in the age of the Internet". More than 30 graduate and postgraduate students participates. A PDF Version of the presentation is attached. The .odp version is at http://www.johanneskeizer.com/files/GZ-University_jk_2008-08-01.odp.

I am finishing today my trip to India, which brought me to Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology), Hyderabad (Verus, Kesevan Indstitute of Information and Knowledge Management, ICRISAT) and Bangalore (Indian Institute of Statistics, SMD Institute for Management Development). I gave keynotes at the AGROPEDIA workshop at IIT and at the New Gen Lib workshop at SMD-IMD, I gave two lectures to students and faculty at IITK.

My group is collaborating with ICRISAT and the Indian Institute of Technology in the AGROPEDIA Indica project. My colleague Margherita Sini and I were invited to participate in the "Rice Workshop" of the project. I gave a keynote in the opening session which is attached,

you can download the presentation(very heavy)

Program Committee of a Workshop on Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and Rural Development, which is scheduled to take place on 19 September 2008 in the context of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Bio and Earth Sciences (HAICTA 2008, http://infolab.aua.gr/haicta/conf/).

I am participating today in a meeting of the stakeholders in the Initiative for International Information Systems in Agricultural Science and Technology.