I am combining my educational/academic background in agricultural biotechnology (BSc, MSc and PhD) with my personal interest & experience in agri-food information management, data & metadata management workflows, knowledge organization systems (KOS) and linking agricultural data sources. I have worked for a wide variety of organizations such as Agroknow (Greece), the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), the University of Alcala (Spain), the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), where I contributed to the implementation of research projects; at the same time I have also been responsible for the management of the networks and the social media strategy (among others) as well as other marketing activities of some of these organizations. I have also been awarded with contracts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO), IFOAM EU and the Open Data Institute (ODI), as a scientific associate. I am currently working as the Outreach & Networking Manager of NEUROPUBLIC, a Greek SME that is building information systems, focusing on smart farming services
I have experience in metadata management plans and workflows through my involvement in several EU-funded projects, such as agINFRA, Organic.Lingua and VOA3R (Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository), where I was involved in the data integration and linking processes involving several heterogeneous agricultural data sources as well as the design / development of metadata aggregation workflows and methodologies, focusing on the metadata harvesting processes as well as on multilingual aspects (In the case of Organic.Lingua).
I have also worked with courses on the use of modern ICT tools and blended learning methods in various EU projects dealing with vocational education/training in organic agriculture, such as Organic.Edunet, Organic.Balkanet & CerOrganic.
Specialties: agricultural information & knowledge management, data & metadata management workflows, digital repositories, social media, networking.
What are your domain(s) of expertise?
information & knowledge management content management metadata management Open Access Open Data social media networking agricultural data
What is your relationship with agricultural information management standards, tools and services?
I am combining my educational/academic background in agricultural biotechnology (BSc, MSc and PhD) with my personal interest & experience in agri-food information management, data & metadata management workflows, knowledge organization systems (KOS) and linking agricultural data sources. I have worked as a Marketing & Networks Manager, responsible for the networks and social media (among others) as well as other marketing activities of the companies that I have worked for I am currently working as the Outreach & Networking Manager of NEUROPUBLIC, a Greek SME that is building information systems, focusing on smart farming services I have experience in metadata management, agricultural Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) and data aggregation/linking from various agricultural data sources through my participation in numerous EU-funded projects related to content management and digital repositories, such as agINFRA, Organic.Lingua and VOA3R. In addition, I am interested in Linked & Open Data, mostly in the agricultural context.
