Organic-AgriWare: an application for the organic agriculture community

Project information

Organic-AgriWare: an application for the organic agriculture community

Call: Services and Applications for Smart Agriculture

Id: 15341

Acronym: Organic-AgriWare

Duration: 
1 March, 2015 to 31 August, 2015

Consortium:
No Partner Contact Country Total
1000€
Funded
1000€
Funder
1 Coord.Agro-KnowPMO DepartmentGreece104.683.1SmartAgriFood
2International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS)
Aarhus University
Ilse RasmussenDenmark56.948.8Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education
Ministry of Higher Education and Science
3Knowledge Centre for AgricultureTomas NorfeltDenmark19.217.2Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education
Ministry of Higher Education and Science


Summary: 

Organic agriculture stakeholders, whether in Denmark or Greece and elsewhere, are faced with the same practical problems and obstacles when it comes to organic agriculture. Therefore, farmers and advisors need context-related information to support their long-term and short-term planning. They need to be able to acquire this knowledge without access restrictions to scientific publications. The problem is that all this information is currently dispersed at different online and off-line locations/media, making access to the already acquired knowledge difficult. Collecting the necessary context-related information is therefore currently a challenging task.

To this end, we propose implementation of Organic-AgriWare that will combine organic agricultural research knowledge with other available practical information, maximizing the practical benefits for organic agriculture stakeholders. This will be a mobile platform that will provide a mashup with unique and context-aware access to the Organic Eprints resources and information from both relevant FIspace apps and other useful resources for the users, determined after a relevant use-case study.

Organic-AgriWare’s implementation is based on a strategic partnership spanning two European countries, Denmark and Greece, between Agro-Know, ICROFS, and DAAS. The end application could be used by anyone interested in organic agriculture. However, the targeted customer segments are agricultural advisors and organic farmers. It will operate under a freemium revenue model, it will capitalize on already existing and future collaborations with other FIspace application providers, and it is expected to have a high early adoption rate. Our lean manufacturing and agile development approach mandates the addition of a fourth milestone.

Impact: 

Organic agriculture stakeholders are faced with practical problems and obstacles. Organic-AgriWare developed a web-based application that provides context-aware access to Organic Eprints publications (provided by the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems – ICROFS) for end users (namely organic farmers, agricultural advisors and researchers). It is worth mentioning that the Organic-AgriWare web-based application has been developed based on FIWARE technologies. The Organic- AgriWare application can be used by farmers and advisors when they are searching for information based on scientific publications related to organic agriculture for their operations. The application operates under a freemium revenue model. In this model, its core features are offered free to end users, whereas additional features are offered for a price. More specifically, the basic feature is the ability to search and retrieve publications based on research about organic agriculture. Therefore, end users are provided with advanced search tools in order to access relevant content from research papers hosted in Organic Eprints provided by ICROFS. On the other hand, the premium version offers personalised publications to organic farmers, researchers and agricultural advisors.

Outputs: 

Organic-AgriWare’s implementation is based on a strategic partnership spanning two European countries, Denmark and Greece, between Agro-Know, ICROFS, and DAAS. The end application could be used by anyone interested in organic agriculture. However, the targeted customer segments are agricultural advisors and organic farmers. It will operate under a freemium revenue model, it will capitalize on already existing and future collaborations with other FIspace application providers, and it is expected to

Topics: 
  • FI-SPACE

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