The Role of Linked Data in Agriculture

Johannes Keizer is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. For the last ten years he is leading the AIMS team (“Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services”). The AIMS team takes care of the multilingual agricultural concept scheme “AGROVOC”, facilitates AGRIS (“the International Information Systems for Agricultural Science and Technology”) and works together with GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) on the CIARD RING (“Roadmap to Information Nodes and Gateways”). The AIMS website (http://aims.fao.org/) has become one of the most important access points for standards, tools and advice in agricultural information management. Johannes Keizer has a master degree in biochemistry and biophysics and a PhD in Biology. Before turning his interest tothe management of scientific data he worked as a research fellow on eco-toxicological aspects of organo-phosphorous pesticides. He is member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board.