The document discusses the need for improved dissemination of high-quality agricultural data and content, including various types of research materials, educational resources, and datasets. It emphasizes the importance of creating data pools to avoid data silos and duplication of metadata curation work. The author provides examples of initiatives and resources aimed at enhancing data sharing and collaboration in agricultural research.

1. Improving dissemination
of content
Nikos Manouselis
nikosm@agroknow.gr

2. http://wiki.agroknow.gr
“meaningful services
around high-quality
agricultural data pools”

3. agricultural research(+) content
• publications, theses, reports, other grey literature
• educational material and content, courseware
• primary data, such as measurements & observations
– structured, e.g. datasets as tables
– digitized, e.g. images, videos
• secondary data, such as processed elaborations
– e.g. dendrograms, pie charts
• provenance information, incl. authors, their
organizations and projects
• experimental protocols & methods
• social data, tags, ratings, etc.
• …

4. • stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals educators’
• open archives view
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

5. • stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
researchers’
• technologies
view
• learning objects
• ………..

6. • stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
practioners’
• open archives
view
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

7. is great
…but its not the answer

11. we create
data silos

12. • stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
we need
data pools
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

13. actually share metadata
Author Subject
ID Title
Publisher
Date Catalog

14. • stats
• gene banks
• gis data
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..

17. main benefit
• avoid duplication of
–metadata curation work
–technical (software dev) work

18. demo time
• prototyping how this works
– GLN backbone (http://www.greenlearningnetwork.org)
– OER Commons Green micro-site
(http://www.oercommons.org/green)
– Organic.Edunet revamp
(http://www.greenlearningnetwork.org/organicedunet)
– AgShare Find OER
(http://greenlearningnetwork.org/agshareoer)
• more info:
– nikosm@agroknow.gr
– http://wiki.agroknow.gr