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id: ch6-digital-terroir
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title: "Digital terroir: putting a place's food online as a whole"
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teaser: "On Kythera, 'digital terroir' meant products, experiences and know-how behind one front door. The same idea appears in Greece, Czechia and Apulia."
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diagram: diagram-digital-terroir
recallQ: "What does 'digital terroir' mean in the DASK project, and where else does the same pattern appear?"
recallA: "In DASK it means one digital gateway that combines direct sales of local products, agritourism bookings and AI-supported farming knowledge under the island's identity. Similar patterns appear in the Central Greece agrifood portal with its 'Products from the Heart of Greece' label, the MoKa honey tour, and LocalLinks.AI's link to the Atlas of Regional Speciality."
highlights:
  - "DASK's 'digital terroir' joins three things online: what a place grows, what visitors can experience, and what farmers know"
  - "It is about making a place's food legible to outsiders; the sources do not describe it as sensor monitoring"
  - "Regional labels and portals in Central Greece and Czechia follow the same logic"
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concept: dask-kythera
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*Terroir* is the idea that a food carries the character of the place it comes from. D6.3 says the DASK project on Kythera was "grounded in the 'digital terroir' philosophy". In practice that meant **one digital gateway** combining three things that usually live apart:

| Layer | On Kythera (DASK) |
|---|---|
| What the place grows | E-Market for direct sales of island products |
| What visitors can experience | Agritourism Experience booking engine |
| What farmers know | Training Centre, Knowledge Base, Greek-speaking JackDaw chatbot |

The earlier version of this sidebar described digital terroir as IoT sensors and satellite profiles of each grove. The PoliRural+ sources do not support that. In this project the idea is about **making a place's food legible to buyers and visitors**, not about measuring it.

## The same pattern elsewhere

- **Central Greece**: the Agrifood Partnership portal shows producers, products, points of sale and agrifood units that can be visited. Its quality label **"Products from the Heart of Greece"** marks certified local products (Atlas of best practices, prp-097).
- **Itea, Central Greece**: the **MoKa Honey Stories Tour** combines an apiary visit, tasting and direct sales, so the honey reaches buyers together with its story (prp-105).
- **Czechia**: the national **"Regional Food" label** goes to winners of 13 regional competitions, run by the Ministry of Agriculture since 2010 (prp-068). In the Pilsen Region, LocalLinks.AI feeds its producer network into the PoliRural+ **Atlas of Regional Speciality**.
- **Apulia**: D6.3 credits Field2Fork's results partly to "local agrifood storytelling".

All four put the place itself up front: a label, a story or a map.

**Sources:**
- D6.3 Comprehensive Report on Funded Activities and Impact Assessment, §3.2 Project results and achievements (Develop call: DASK, LocalLinks.AI, Field2Fork AI Hub). [PDF](https://www.poliruralplus.eu/docs/437/D6.3_Comprehensive_report.pdf)
- Atlas of best practices, prp-068, prp-097, prp-105. [atlasbestpractices.com](https://atlasbestpractices.com)