Semantic web technologies have become a popular technique to apply meaning to
unstructured data. They have been infrequently applied to problems within the agricultural …

Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data.
However, those ontologies are spread out, in different formats, of different size, with different …

WS-PGRADE/gUSE is a gateway framework that offers a set of highlevel grid and cloud
services by which interoperation between grids, clouds, and scientific user communities can …

The global increase in population necessitates enhanced food security, yet current
agricultural practices are inadequate in feeding everyone and are detrimental to the …

With the explosion of the number of ontologies and vocabularies available in the semantic
web, ontology libraries and repositories are mandatory to find and use them. Their …

The agINFRA project aims to provide the agricultural research communities with e-
infrastructure and services for open data access, sharing and re-use. This paper introduces …

In this paper we present a solution for agricultural communities to process large metadata
record sets registered on distributed data repositories utilizing distributed computational and …

Environmental and societal security are two important areas in the generic topic of security
issues. Numerous IT research and development achievements can provide efficient support …

In this paper, we explore how we may give researchers from different disciplines new tools
to enrich and use the data that are made discoverable and accessible through Europeana …