Sixty plus participants from all over the Philippines participated in the Seminar-Workshop on Updating and Enhancing Skills of PhilAgriNet Members on Database Content Management and Annual General Assembly on March 1-2, 2012 at the Hotel Kimberly, Tagaytay City. The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Nicomedes Eleazar, Director of the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR) who commended PhilAgriNet members in their efforts to create awareness of local agricultural research outputs via the PhilAgriNet database. The other lecturers and their topics were Ms. Julia Lapitan - Current Status of PhilAgriNet; Mrs. Mila M. Ramos - DSpace: an alternative in database content management; Mrs. Concepcion DL. Saul - Dublin Core Metadata and Review of Metadata Elements in the PhilAgriNet database; Ms. Carmelita S. Austria - Subject Indexing; and Ms. Cherry Ann Barrientos - Data Encoding tutorials. The members committed themselves to focus on content development and later on to engage in membership campaigns and creating awareness of PhilAgriNet.
