During the Agricultural Data Interest Group I participated in a meeting of the GACS/GODAN working group. Main result of this meeting was the redefinition of GACS as "Global Agricultural Concept Space" in stead of "Scheme".   The existing scheme in GACS is only an exemple for many more schemes to come to create a real interoperation hub for vocabularies in the AgriFood System.  Basis of the discussion was a position paper authored my Tom Baker and myself ();

In November 2017 I presented the eROSA project at the EOSC stakeholder workshop in Brussels.    I gave a presentation about the Infrastructure needs of the Agri-Food community

Also in 2017 I represented GODAN at the G20 -MACS meeting (Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists).  Together with Daniel Martini I gave a presentation about the results of working on open data in 2017, and especially on the Linked Open Data workshop organized by the Germann G20 presidency

At the end of August 2017 I gave presentations on Agrisemantics and GACS at th 44th meeting of the Asian Pacific Advanced Network and at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.

Since the APAN meeting 42 in Hongkong, there is engagement with GODAN. After my presentation at Hongkong to he APAN board, APAN joint GODAN. For APAN 43 in Delhi I was invited as a keynote speaker at the closing plenary

Johannes Keizer and Fabrizio Celli got the best paper award at MTSR 2016 (the 10th international conference on Metadata and Semantics Research) The awarded paper  had the title "Enabling Multilingual Search through Controlled Vocabularies: the AGRIS Approach "  (see attached presentation)

I also gave a keynote at this conference, which is at  https://www.slideshare.net/Keizer/keynote-at-the-mtsr-conference