Knowledge Infrastructures

eROSA presentation at NFDI4L

Germany is working to create its Research data Infrastructure. Monies will be available at the end of the year and consortia can present their projects.

Ridimensioning Facebook

From today on I will not use Facebook anymore to publish originary content. I will reopen my blog at johanneskeizer.com, which I stopped in 2013. I want to be able to manage my pictures, thoughts and news as I like, I want to maintain control. I don't want to give this control to Facebook.

Johannes Keizer Appointed Guest Professor in Chengdu

During a Conference on the potential of big data in Agriculture, on wich keynotes were given by Takuji Kiura an myself, I was appointed Guest Professor at the Information and Documentation Center of the Chinese Academy of Science in Chengdu. I am proud of the collaboration with Chai Miaoling and her team and I am looki

EFITA and eROSA stakeholder meeting

July 2015: I represented the GODAN initiative at the meeting of the European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture. EFITA Parallel to the EFITA conference the first stakeholder workshop of the eROSA project took place, where I gave a presentation on different views on Infrastructure.

The FAIR principle in the Big Data World

johannes keizer presented the GODAN secretariat at the VDI Wissens forum and gave a presentation on the FAIR principle in the Big Data World.

MTSR 2016 - Best Paper Award for Johannes Keizer and Fabrizio Celli

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

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Dynamics, Bangalore

I participated from July 10-13 in International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics, which was organized by DRTC-ISI (Documentation, Research and Training Center, Indian Institute of Technology).

Excellent! This escaped my Radar. There are always less arguments against the use of opensource.

Excellent! This escaped my Radar. There are always less arguments against the use of opensource. Mixed environments will become easier and normal https://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/12/announcing-one-more-way-microsoft-will-engage - Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities - Inter

Open Infrastructures for Open Science

The Directorate F - Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures is organizing a series of consultations for the preparation of Horizon 2020, the new Framework Program for research funding. I was invited to participate also in the Rome event about "open Infrastructures for open science". I expressed my opinion that the importance of semantic standards and linked open data technologies should not be underestimated.

The picture at the left is from a presentation, which analyzed institutional readines for open data

An interesting intiative is EUDA with the intent to create trusted data services between public and private partners.

THe same issues that we are discussin in agINFRA (structures, vocabularies, relations, persistent identifiers, protocols) are addressed in the EUDAT system.

more screenshots at my FlickR Gallery.

Industry and Innovation in e-Infrastructures for Horizon 2020

On March 8 and 9 I was invited to participate in the expert consultation on "Industry and Innovation in e-Infrastructures for Horizon 2020.

All invited experts were asked to contribute to the following questions:

1. Technology transfer, spin-offs and financing

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