Voa3r, Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository

=Programme ICT - PSP=

Project profile

 * Full name:Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment.
 * Project type: European Research Consortium Project (ICT-PSP Programme of the European Commission).
 * Duration: 01/06/2010 - 31/05/2013
 * Project Website: http://www.voa3r.eu
 * Partners: The VOA3R consortium consists of 14 partners from 10 different countries and 3 collaborators from external organisations.
 * UDE (University of Duisburg-Essen - Germany) http://www.uni-due.de/index.shtml.en
 * SLU (Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences - Sweden) http://www.slu.se/en/
 * ICROFS (International Center for Research in Organic Food Systems - Denmark) http://www.icrofs.org/
 * Funding agency: European Commission
 * Reference code: 250525
 * Funding received: 3.600.000 €
 * EU contribution: 1.800.000 €

Technology and standards used

 * Content Management Systems: Joomla
 * social networking software - Joomla social
 * Semantic Web technologies
 * Semantic learning object metadata repository Ont-Space

Main results
A social platform for researchers in agriculture & aquaculture integrating open access institutional research repositories and using the AGROVOC thesaurus combined with terminologies specific to research methods. http://voa3r.cc.uah.es/