Profile

 

Agro-Know Technologies is a research-oriented enterprise that focuses on knowledge-intensive technology innovation for agriculture and rural development. Agro-Know develops systems and services for agricultural knowledge organization and delivery, using semantic web technologies and Web 2.0 tools. It also explores their deployment and testing in application domains such as education & training, commerce, and public administration.

 

Agro-Know services and products are aligned with international standardization efforts, such as the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) initiative of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and the Information Society Standardization System (ISSS) of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). Agro-Know members are active contributors in such fora, working on agricultural information standards and specifications, agricultural metadata and ontologies, as well as agricultural taxonomies and thesauri.

 

Agro-Know is involved in a variety of RTD initiatives, as a technology partner or subcontractor, in the context of EU programmes such as FP7, eContentplus, and Lifelong Learning.