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Agrifeeds

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8th AOS Workshop – 22 Sept. 2007

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Objectives• One stop-view for all news and events covering

agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and nutrition, etc.

• Possibility to search and filter events and news based on desired filter criteria (hot topics!) avian influenza, locusts, tsunami...

• Possibility to dynamically create custom feeds for further re-use

• In few clicks, add the event to Outlook Calendar

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Components - Content• News

– standards RSS elements

– Mandatory elements are: • (RSS) Title

• (RSS) Link

• (RSS) Description

• (RSS) pubDate

• Events– Created an “application

profile”

– Mandatory elements are: • (RSS) Title

• (RSS) Link

• (RSS) Description

• (AGS) Start Date

• (AGS) End Date

• (RSS) pubDate

• (AGS) Location City

• (AGS) Location Country

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Three stop workflow

1. Create an RSS feed each for News and Events

2. Register them at Agrifeeds

3. Reuse feeds from other organizations for enhancing your content, website content, portal content.

(1) Create(1) Create (3) Reuse(3) Reuse (2) Register (2) Register

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Demo

www.agrifeeds.org

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Gauri Salokhe & Valeria Pesce

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Future Plans/Possibilities• Versions can be provided for specific

community, Organization (such as FAO)

• Can be extended to other types of resources:– Job announcements– FAQs

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Thanks to...• Irene Onyancha (FAO)

• Elena Di Paola (FAO)

• Johannes Keizer (FAO)

• Ajit Maru (GFAR)