AgriFeeds: the agricultural news and events aggregator
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Since 2000, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has undertaken a number of initiatives to facilitate the creation of standards for agricultural information exchange, especially in the area of document-like information objects . In the last couple of years, a strong need has emerged for a standard way to interchange other types of information (on organizations, projects, experts, events, news) between systems residing on different platforms in the agricultural commun ity, one capable of cutting across networks of partners while at the same time overcoming barriers to cooperation and interoperability. The need to (i) facilitate collaboration and (ii) harmonize the decentralized efforts in the development of methodologies for successful agricultural information management was reiterated by the Expert consultation of October 2005, which stressed the need for “Intervention point on interlinking different information types”. During the consultation, a Content M anagement Taskforce (CMTF) was established to focus on this specific issue. One of the areas of work the CMTF was asked to concentrate on was the “exchange of news feeds”, and how the community supporting agricultural information services can benefit from collaboration through the application of freely available Web2.0 tools. In the long run, more sophisticated systems may be developed that allow for example, filtering to produce custom-made feeds, such as those for an “early warning system” on topics such as avian influenza, desert locusts and climate change.