eFarmer CAPrelated and Countryspecific eContent Management

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eFarmer CAP-related and Country-specific
eContent Management

• SZIE eFarmer
• Research Group
• Professional Contribution
• to the Project

EFITA/WCCA Joint Conference 2005Vila Real,
Portugal, 26-28 July 2005
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Project Objectives

• 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
• 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
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Business Model
Source eFarmer project documentation
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Members of the project consortium
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Tasks of SZIE Research Group

• 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
  data-visualisation based on FAO- and
  FADN-services, usergroup-specific document
  services might have both generic and
  country-specific character.)

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Generic solutions

• Classes of potential primer content (numeric
  data, text, multimedia objects)
• 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
• User group-specific document/data providing (a
  special kind of newsletters edited by experts)
• Online reports (data visualisation pre-defined
  and/or self-structured)

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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.

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Legitimation

• Information sources (research institutes,
  professional journals etc.) The strategy
  (integrating and structuring) is acknowledged and
  supported.
• Information and Extension System Providers
  (mediators)
• 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 non-existing 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.

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Stakeholders needs
Primary users (farmers, advisors)

• Providing the necessary information for the
  cross-compliance, GAEC, QA, traceability and
  business planning.

IT Service Providers

• 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
• 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

• Completing the extension services by competent
  experts,
• Using PPP-oriented approach.

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Achievements I - eLibrary

• 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

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Achievements II Online reports

• Tens of thousands of numeric data is available
• Sources FAO (V4), CAPRI (HUN), FADN (HUN), CSO
  (HUN), MIS (HUN)
• Main services
• 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)

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Conclusion

• In the first stage we explored the data-assets of
  the Hungarian and some of the international
  agricultural portals within the multi-dimensional
  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
• Document (e.g. certificates, contracts, invoices)
  repository of small farmers in order to support
  their detailed accountancy.
• GAEC-, traceability-, QA-, cross compliance-based
  (technology-, or product-specific) information
  filtering.
• Developing expert systems, which are able to
  support solving typical problems in user-specific
  way (e.g. availability of certain aid schemes).
• Education of efarmers (as information brokers)
  according to the following principles
• learning by doing/ tele-coaching,
• independent structuring of existing knowledge
  items,
• independent exploring the new knowledge.

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