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RDA 22nd Plenary: attend the IGAD session on data ethics, agrisemantics and AI.

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  • May 1, 2024 at 12:40 pm #134480

    Valeria Pesce
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    Dear members of the IGAD Community of Practice,

    As you probably know already, the 22nd RDA plenary will take place virtually from 14 to 23 May.

    All experts and practitioners interested in agricultural data are invited to attend the session organized by the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice titled “Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI“.

    Dates and registration:

    Live session: Breakout 11 Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:30 UTC
    Repeat session: Breakout 15 Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 22:30–00:00 UTC

    Registration to the RDA plenary is required: registration is open now. There are many interesting sessions planned for the plenary: see the Plenary 22 full programme.

    Objectives of the IGAD session:

    Increase awareness of the IGAD Community of Practice, recruit participants and get input on workplan for a new Working Group on “Ethics in Agricultural Data”, and decide if there is interest in any other new Working Groups, such as on how to support the use of Agrisemantics in AI systems.

    Session agenda:

    1. Introduction (5 min)

    2. Updates from the communities (5 minutes)

    3. Ethics in Agricultural Research Data: Working Group update (20 minutes)

    • Alan Moss (USDA ARS)

    4. Agrisemantics for Artificial Intelligence (60 minutes)

    • Filipi Miranda Soares (University of São Paulo) – “Applying Large Language Models in Ontology Design: a use case with the Agricultural Product Types Ontology”
    • Jennifer Woodward-Greene (USDA) – “NALT for the Machine Age: Cultivating a Semantic System for Data Interoperability”
    • Gary Leicester (CABI) – “How the CABI thesaurus leverages AI” (preliminary title)
    • Raul Palma (PSNC) – “Semantic interoperability in agriculture data spaces”
    • Discussion on new working group

    Target Audience:

    Experts and interested individuals on: agricultural data and semantics, ethics, artificial intelligence.

    Group chair serving as contact person:

    Cynthia Parr (cynthia.parr at usda.gov)

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