This year the AGRIS team participates in the international Challenge of the Second International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM) Summit with OpenAGRIS. The first round of LODLAM Challenge entries are now open for voting until December 15. 

Vote at OpenAGRIS challenge entry

Public votes count for about 30% of consideration for selecting finalists, and a panel of judges plus the organizing committee (who don't have conflicts of interest) makes up the balance of the decision making process. The three finalists will be announced by December 20th.

LODLAM Challenge

The LODLAM Summit will take place June 19-20, 2013 in Montreal, Canada and will convene leaders in their respective areas of expertise from the humanities and sciences to catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing and consuming Linked Open Data.

The LODLAM Challenge will highlight data visualizations, tools, mashups, meshups, and all types of use cases for Linked Open Data in libraries, archives, and museums. Teams will register to submit in one and/or two heats during the fall and the spring.

OpenAGRIS

OpenAGRIS  is a Web application that aggregates information from different Web sources to expand the AGRIS knowledge providing much data as possible about a topic or a bibliographical resource. Using Agrovoc as backbone, OpenAgris can interlink with a lot of existing datasets (currently DBPedia, World Bank, Geopolitical Ontology, FAO fisheries dataset, AGRIS serials dataset, and so over), showing as much information as possible about a specific topic, as statistics about fish species or geographical distribution of plants.

In this way, OpenAgris will be a centralized portal that will aggregate all information the Web knows about a specific topic, research area (in the agricultural sector) or bibliographic reference. Know more about OpenAGRIS with this video