The ICT-AGRI meta knowledge base: designing a web based tool for mapping and analysing research and development on ict and robotics in agriculture and environmental related businesses

In the past decades agricultural productivity increased, but modern agriculture also became a threat to the environment and the safety of the produced food. To make regulations easy to understand and to apply they are expressed in general rules. However, today’s technology can determine and control every action applied to every single spot of farm land and every single farm animal. Therefore, extensive research on ICT and Robotics in agriculture and environmental (ICT-AGRI) related issues is conducted. The overall aim of this ICT-AGRI project is to strengthen and coordinate the European research, to develop a common European research agenda and to launch common calls. The specific objective of our work is to create central internet-based resources for researchers, developers and users within ICT
and robotics in agriculture, and to stimulate coordination of research and development in this area through user-driven initiatives and activities. Therefore, a structured framework for mapping and analyzing all relevant knowledge within the described research area was developed.