e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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Agricultural information systems and communication networks: the case of dairy farmers in the Samsun province of Turkey

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Abstract

Introduction. Analysis of the agricultural information systems and communication network used by members and non-members of the Dairy Cattle Breeders' Association provided a framework to identify the strength and weaknesses of the current systems and led to recommendations to improve their performance. Method. Structured interviews were used to collect data from a randomly selected forty-three members and sixty-five non-members of the Association. Analysis. Tests of association (e. g., Correlation Coefficient and Kendall's tau) and tests of difference (Student's t test) were performed using SPSS. Results. The main function of the information systems was the dissemination of dairy-faming-related information. Association membership functions as a means to keep more European pure-bred cows and provide financial incentives, rather than developing a modern dairy sector. The non-members of the Association mainly used their current knowledge and traditional practices. Conclusions. The lack of information support from the institutional sources resulted in the development of personal information sources to exchange information and diffuse technology among the farmers themselves. We recommend that more functional cooperation between public and private information sources in the system is needed to motivate conventional dairy farmers to convert into modern dairy farming system.

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Year
2008
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Country
  • TR
Organization
  • Ondokuz_Mayis_Univ (TR)
Data keywords
  • information system
  • knowledge
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Agriculture keywords
  • agriculture
  • farming
  • cattle
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Data topic
  • information systems
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INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL
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