Future Internet 2012, 4(1), 42-64; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi4010042
Extension Activity Support System (EASY): A Web-Based Prototype for Facilitating Farm Management
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Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Ground floor, 204 Lygon Street, 5th floor, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
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Spatial Vision, Level 2, 170 Queen Street Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Building, The University of Melbourne, Level 5, Architecture Building, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Rutherglen Centre, RMB 1145, Rutherglen, VIC 3685, Australia
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Received: 4 November 2011 / Revised: 27 December 2011 / Accepted: 27 December 2011 / Published: 4 January 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet and Landscapes)
Abstract
In response to disparate advances in delivering spatial information to support agricultural extension activities, the Extension Activity Support System (EASY) project was established to develop a vision statement and conceptual design for such a system based on a national needs assessment. Personnel from across Australia were consulted and a review of existing farm information/management software undertaken to ensure that any system that is eventually produced from the EASY vision will build on the strengths of existing efforts. This paper reports on the collaborative consultative process undertaken to create the EASY vision as well as the conceptual technical design and business models that could support a fully functional spatially enabled online system. View Full-Text
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Lowell, K.; Smith, L.; Miller, I.; Pettit, C.; Seymour, E. Extension Activity Support System (EASY): A Web-Based Prototype for Facilitating Farm Management. Future Internet 2012, 4, 42-64.
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