Very good points related issues mentioned from the post of Nabeel Abu-Shriha. I have some limited experiences on participating the projects serving the practical end users (farmers and enterprenuers) with ICTs. there are very good project designed well but failed to generate a sustainable effect after the some local service center invested. it seems that the end users wanna some "fast food" that easily understood to act, and can bring them benefit in a see-able future, and better free of charge. other wise, they'd like to ask the real person.  

the PC, mobile, even CATV have been utilized as network terminals already, and there are certain orgs input region-oriented info, but is that enough? can we make make more valuable customized service and regarding them as knowledge farmer/agri-entreprenuer, as what we did to users in business world?

and finally, I do feel there are much more resources for research community comparing to those for those end users, is it really hard to meet their requirement on information based on the existed tools, standards and infrastructures? 

Hi Diane

I started to be aware of the acceptance and application of Open Access as well we Web of Linked Dada (WLD) in China, since last year. I wanna know how many institute and organizations or projects has adopted these two approaches to run their applications, the number is very limited.

yes perhaps people is more used to the tools they use well, and there are many usable tools to develop a CMS application or simple online query system, which are enough for user to find the info they want.  

but to me WLD or LOD is not difficult, perhaps it requires more patience than technical skill, an LOD demonstration seldom looks attractive (see those samples from W3C). 

 Hi John,

There is a note written by the creator of eScienceNews.com (http://drupal.org/node/261340). our team has also made a trial based on the description. by far there is less semantic calculation involved, it uses Naïve Bayesian  algorithm to calculate the similarities among online texts aggregated from the RSS sources, this require a training process, as Agrotagger does I guess.  

 I agree the future you described the tools like OpenCalais, Textwise could bring, Johannes once introduces a website to me, which you may have known, that PhaseIITechnology (http://www.phase2technology.com/) has been working in this area.