The SWIB 2013 (http://swib.org/swib13/) organizing committee invited GFAR to give a talk on AgriVIVO to present to participants a concrete example of a Linked Data approach to research information.      
AgriVIVO (www.agrivivo.net) is a search portal recently launched by GFAR in collaboration with Cornell University and FAO to improve the discoverability of experts and institutions across separately hosted directories and online communities and thus facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field.

The talk was delivered by valeria Pesce and covered: the reasons for choosing the VIVO platform (www.vivoweb.org) over other solutions; the methodology used to extend the VIVO ontology; the workflows and technical solutions adopted for harvesting from different databases; the work done for harmonizing data coming from systems using different semantic organizations; the architecture of the system; URIs, RDF profiles and Linked Data.