Transcript eFarmer ~ CAP-related and Country

eFarmer ~ CAP-related and
Country-specific eContent
Management
SZIE eFarmer
Research Group
Professional Contribution
to the Project
EFITA/WCCA Joint Conference 2005
Vila Real, Portugal, 26-28 July 2005
Project Objectives
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Strategic objective: Improving and enhancing the flow
of information within CAP, relating to various aid
(priorities: SAPS, national top-up and LFA) options
from state administration to farmers of V-4 countries.
Technical objective: Implementing user friendly eCMS
and form flow generator modules to support efficient
and sustainable CAP content transformation.
Supplementary objectives:
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Introduction of web services to assist farmers
Electronic claim submission using eFarmer content (rules,
manuals, form templates, etc.) as input source,
Establishment of pilot groups of eFarmer user network
demonstrating eFarmer content communication services for
farmer community.
Based on: eFarmer project documentation
Business Model
Source: eFarmer project documentation
Members of the project consortium
Tasks of SZIE Research Group
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CAP- and CoAP-specific content transformation
(emphatic parts: SAPS, national top-ups and LFA):
 Exploring, extracting and structuring the primary
information sources in the EU and Hungary.
 Exploring the needs of the potential users
 Developing the additional value-added services
Isolating the generic and country-specific aspects of
content management
(Almost every kind of knowledge items/services - like datavisualisation based on FAO- and FADN-services, usergroup-specific
document services – might have both generic and country-specific
character.)
Generic solutions
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Classes of potential primer content (numeric
data, text, multimedia objects):
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Textual: e.g. press monitoring for V4-related news
Textual: e.g. official documents of aid claiming
Numeric: e.g. FADN-, MIS-, FAO-, CAPRI-data for
benchmarking
Multimedia: e.g. online stored fragments of radio
broadcasting, movie-clips of TV broadcasting
Appearance of this content:
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User group-specific document/data providing (a
special kind of newsletters – edited by experts)
Online reports (data visualisation – pre-defined
and/or self-structured)
Information value-added
In a content management project, extra utility
(information value-added) can be established
through:
 Saving of time: the necessary documents/data
can be found quicker through integration of
relevant items.
 Enhanced comprehensiveness of results: all
relevant documents/data can be found through
systematic exploring of items.
 Enhanced reliability of results: the overall
quality of documents is better trough checking
of different sources.
Legitimation
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Information sources (research institutes, professional
journals etc.): The strategy (integrating and structuring) is
acknowledged and supported.
Information and Extension System Providers
(„mediators”):
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Automated claim submission on the base of detailed (official)
farm data for accounting for „large-scale” farms already covered,
real assistance is needed: GAEC, traceability, QA, cross
compliance
Supporting accounting and planning for small farmers is nonexisting yet (despite of general prescription)
Primary users (potential efarmers, farmers, authorities,
labour organisations): The experiences coming from
questionnaires are (will be) taken into account during the
development process.
Stakeholders’ needs
Primary users (farmers, advisors)
Providing the necessary information for the cross-compliance, GAEC,
QA, traceability and business planning.
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IT Service Providers
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Development of claiming system is the duty of the government, it
should be a public service (cf. Federal state of Hessen)
Roles of extension system might be:
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Guarantee the necessary primary data for IACS-controls (traceability,
QA, GAEC, data integration with GIS etc.)
Supporting the planning processes (estimation of prices and yields,
technology-scenarios, optimisation according to subsidy, GM, income,
cost, labour force, etc.)
Authorities, public organisations
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Completing the extension services by competent experts,
Using PPP-oriented approach.
Achievements I - eLibrary
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Several thousands of knowledge items (documents,
news, multimedia objects, projects, services) are
catalogised at this time.
Sources: MARD, PA, CSO, Online Catalogue of
Agricultural Research Institutes, IAMO, fnsea news
abstracts etc.
Numerous homogeneous knowledge groups (according
to e.g. IACS codes, agricultural activities) are set up.
Navigation supporting tools:
 Keyword and full-text search
 Multi-dimensional document-trees
Achievements II – Online reports
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Tens of thousands of numeric data is available
Sources: FAO (V4), CAPRI (HUN), FADN
(HUN), CSO (HUN), MIS (HUN)
Main services:
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Online report wizard (e.g. land usage)
„Offline” pivot table service (e.g. forecasting the
stock change of pigs)
Online expert system (e.g. supporting part time
farmers in taxation)
„Offline” expert system (e.g. plot selection of
sugarbeet production)
Conclusion
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In the first stage we explored the data-assets of the Hungarian and
some of the international agricultural portals within the multidimensional content providing framework.
The existing primary information supply of agricultural information
sources (as expected) in not equal to the existing/potential needs of
farmers.
Therefore, exploring and processing of the primary knowledge items
by experts seems to be necessary in the second stage of the project,
the main points should be:
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Document (e.g. certificates, contracts, invoices) repository of
“small” farmers in order to support their detailed accountancy.
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GAEC-, traceability-, QA-, cross compliance-based
(technology-, or product-specific) information filtering.
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Developing expert systems, which are able to support solving
typical problems in user-specific way (e.g. availability of certain
aid schemes).
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Education of efarmers (as information brokers) according to the
following principles:
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“learning by doing/ tele-coaching”,
“independent structuring of existing knowledge items”,
“independent exploring the new knowledge”.
Thank you for your attention!
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