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attempted to construct the strategic and integrative website along with the adoption of
CGM, but the approaches to CGM is the action assignment and urgent. Furthermore,
the construction of databases is imperative in regards to the provision of CGM. In
relation to CGM and databases, they should be adopted in agricultural sector to satisfy
and improve the quality required on primary products, and to bring the cultivation
recipe mentioned in earlier section to the next generation. From making the recipe
point of view, the utilization of data acquired by Field Servers was implemented as
the first step. In the future, the preparation of the data acquisition system with the
cultivation perspective and data which will become major factors of the recipe such as
accumulated temperature and accumulated amount of solar radiation are must. In
addition, more of the efforts on quantifying invisible empirical knowledge and
transferring tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge are very much needed since the
aging of the persons engaged in agriculture has been becoming even more serious
issue. At that time, the development of a faked object that can be criterial by touching
the object will be necessary since meaningful data acquisition by ICT in everything is
almost impossible. In other words, apprehending the human as a sensor and
implementation of the informatization will be significant.
As the next step, the website with blogs will definitely need to be merged with
cultivation recipe and made them into one and small packet as the guideware
mentioned in earlier section in order to satisfy strong quality requirements and better
cultivation.
Finally, we focused on a virtual experience in this case study, yet an actual
experience for consumers such as farming experience for primary productions and
food processing for secondary products will be necessary. It means putting consumers
through farm works such as pruning and ingathering throughout a period of time, and
through food processing such as olive extraction. This will surely generate a
synergistic effect between virtual and actual world and more of the outcome of food
culture extension can be expected.
The URL for the official website for Shodoshima olive project is shown below.
http://www.quark.bio.mie-u.ac.jp/olive/en/index_en.html
Acknowledgement.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Masayuki
HIRAFUJI, Dr. Tokihiro FUKATSU and Mr. Takuji KIURA who have contributed to
this project.
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