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RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: 'The Update of Agricultural Ontologies in Japan'

As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA)/ Agricultural Data Interest Group's (IGAD) ongoing webinar series, aimed to keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and encourage the free flow of ideas, the most recent webinar took place on March 24.

The webinar focused on "The update of agricultural ontologies in Japan - Agricultural Activity Ontology and Crop Vocabulary" and featured Prof. Hideaki Takeda, Dr.,Eng and Sungmin Joo, PhD.

Authors:

  • Prof. Hideaki Takeda, Dr.,Eng.

    Hideaki Takeda is a professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and a professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai). He received Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1991. His interest includes Artificial Intelligence, in particular Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD). He has committed several projects by the government and private companies as the specialist of LOD. He is also the president of Linked Open Data Initiative Inc. that promotes LOD technologies for public and private sectors.

  • Sungmin Joo, PhD

    Sungmin Joo is a project researcher at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He received PhD degrees from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai). His main research interests are building domain ontology and agricultural informatics.