GODAN Summit 2016

Currently working as GODAN Secretariat Research Lead. Wageningen University trained Soil Scientist with extensive experience in Climate Smart Agriculture at Wageningen UR - Plant Research - Agrosystems. (ben.schaap@godan.info)

Sander Janssen Ph.D., is leading a research team Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics at Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen UR, the Netherlands. He dedicates his scientific career to cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration required for achieving impacts... Read More →

Suchith Anand is founder of Geo for All . He is working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU. Over 100 research labs have been established worldwide so far .Details at... Read More →

Elizabeth Arnaud leads the Crop Ontology project at Bioversity International and coordinate the Ontology CoP of CGIAR Big data Platform. She organizes and chairs workshops on semantics for harmonization of phenotypic and agronomic data. In a carreer at Bioversity, Elizabeth coordinated... Read More →

Chris Baker is a professor and chair in the department of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, focusing on technologies for data integration in the life sciences. Over the last decade he has successfully pioneered the design, development and adoption of advanced... Read More →

Tom Baker has left his fingerprints on key Semantic Web standards since the late 1990s, when he helped found the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), which he now co-directs. He co-chaired the W3C working group that published Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) in 2009... Read More →

Rainer Baritz currently works at FAO's secretariate of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP). His main focus is the development of the Global Soil Information System, which involves aspects such as data harmonization, data specification development for the exchange of interoperable... Read More →

Ruth Bastow is the Executive Director of the Global Plant Council (GPC). GPC is a coalition of national, regional and international societies and partner organisations representing ~55,000 plant, crop and agricultural experts across the globe. The GPC aims to provide an independent... Read More →

Imma Subirats has worked as senior information management officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006. She works on the advice of standards, tools and good practices for the management and exchange of data to academic, research, private... Read More →

I am responsible for the development Plantwise Knowledge Bank, working with a wide variety of partners and users in this exciting CABI-led initiative. I have 19 years’ experience in the world of scientific information provision, including responsibility for CABI’s database business... Read More →

Sander Janssen Ph.D., is leading a research team Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics at Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen UR, the Netherlands. He dedicates his scientific career to cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration required for achieving impacts... Read More →

Dr. Clement Jonquet is assistant professor at University of Montpellier, France and since Sept. 2015 visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR). He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpell... Read More →

Twitter: @rnl_s  @f1000research  @f1000 Rebecca Lawrence is Managing Director of F1000, providers of a series of tools and services to support the research community in writing, publishing, discovering and evaluating new scientific findings. She was responsible for the launch in... Read More →

Dr. Shaik N.Meera has made outstanding contributions in Indian rice sector with innovative extension methods and practical ICT approaches benefitting rice farmers and extension agencies. He is a member of the Agricultural Research Service in India since 2003, currently working as... Read More →

Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist and biosemantics specialist. He is known for innovations in scholarly collaboration, especially nanopublications and the FAIR data initiative. Since 2012 he is a Professor in Bio-Semantics at the Department of Human... Read More →

Research Software Enginnering with 12+ years' experience in different domains. Currently leading the Agriculture Research Data Repository project at INIA.

Currently working as GODAN Secretariat Research Lead. Wageningen University trained Soil Scientist with extensive experience in Climate Smart Agriculture at Wageningen UR - Plant Research - Agrosystems. (ben.schaap@godan.info)