From the 15th to the 17th September, the 18th International Conference on Information System for Agricolture and Foresty will take place in Jelgava (Latvia). The conference will cover several topics, including open data and space technologies for agriculture, forestry and rural development, ICT technologies for agriculture sustainability, the land and rural planning, farming on cloud, environmental risk management, nnovation and transfer of technologies and international cooperation.

As part of the conference, an international workshop on on Open and Linked Open Data for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, Transport and Rural Development is organised. the main aim of the workshop is to present existing activities focused on open and linked open data in agriculture, forestry, environment and transport; to exchange experience and knowledge between teams and projects developing platforms for open and linked open data; to introduce the open and linked open data principles and activities towards a broader community and finally to present the results of the open data hackathon.

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