1. e-ROSA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No
730988
e-ROSA 2nd Stakeholder Workshop | Wageningen, 27 November 2017
The e-ROSA process
e-infrastructure roadmap for open science in agriculture
Odile Hologne, INRA, Head of the Department of Scientific Information
e-ROSA coordinator

2. The e-ROSA project

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eROSA in brief
Coordination and support action (infrasupp 3 2016)
18 months
Started in January 2017
Consortium: INRA (FR), WUR Alterra (NL), Agroknow (GR)
« Brother » project: AgINFRA+ : prototype new services
 Support small-size foresight roadmaps for research and education communities and
operators of e-infrastructure services.
 Identification of potential collaboration from stakeholders across different
geographic areas and scientific domains.

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Objectives
Community building: researchers in agri-food sciences and ICT
specialists; international
Improve the knowledge of the landscape: infra/e-infra, projects, policies
… relevant for an « e-infra for open science in agriculture »
Roadmap: conception, advocacy

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The need for a roadmap
A puzzle of different component
Need to build a shared vision
No real research infrastructure in agri-food (ESFRI in
environment, genomics, earth observation …)

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Open Science and Agri-food
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-science
- From small data to big and smart data
- Open research data for re-use
- Data sharing for scientific purpose
- Research transparency (sensitive topics)
- Knowledge access for the developping
countries
- Involve farmers, students or teachers in
scientific processes : citizen science for
agriculture
- Strong link with the societal challenges
- Data driven agricultural sciences
- Multidisciplinary and multiscale approaches
- Data science for policy making

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e-ROSA approach
Stakeholder Workshops
① ② ③

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What we have done so far
Bibliometric analysis
> Initial scoping of the e-ROSA community
> Updating in progress
Online map
> Cataloguing key stakeholders, initiatives and infrastructures
> Ongoing open call: YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED!
First Stakeholder Workshop: 6-7 July 2017 in Montpellier, France
> Initiate community-building and improve knowledge of the current
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/sites/erosa_deliverables/D1.1.pdf
http://www.aginfra.eu/discover
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/node/47

9. Results of the first Stakeholder
Workshop

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Data flows
The agri-food sector is dealing with an increasing amount and variety of data due to:
• The multidisciplinary, multiscale nature of agri-food science, which is adopting a more and more systemic
approach;
• The automation of data collection thanks to robots, sensors, etc., as well as new engineering tools such as in the
omics field;
• The development of new types of data sources: e.g. Internet of Things, citizen science, text-mining

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Data sharing: beyond the technical issues
Societal priorities imply the maximum of transparency
and access to data;
Business interests can support differing objectives
Personal privacy concerns
I want to
protect my
« know
how »I want to
know where
it comes
from
I want to
understand
….

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E-infrastructure as an opportunity to support
agri-food sector and sciences
 Improve & federate existing structures (standards, interoperability, governance,
financing) based on user needs
 Incentives for data sharing in science & training

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Current landscape: Challenges
Technical challenges
Generic
Content-dependent
(agri-food)
Long-term preservation
Data processing
Authentication and access rights
traceability
……
Semantics - standards
From genes to ecosytem
Public and private stakeholders
Registry of services
….
Cultural challenges
Community engagement and incentives
Policies and regulation
Sustainability and governance

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Some of the gems
Data repositories +/- open
Data catalog : http://ring.ciard.net/
Resources catalog: semantics, metadata
http://vest.agrisemantics.org
http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/
http://agrisemantics.org/

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Towards the e-infrastructure
Key issues to address
E-infrastructure governance
Distributed organisation
Identification of needs and related services, Easy access and
use by researchers
E-infrastructure architecture and Articulation between
overarching e-infrastructure issues and scientific data-related
needs (use case approach: technical and scientific)

16. CONSORTIUM
WWW.EROSA.AGINFRA.EU
Thank you for your attention!
odile.hologne@inra.fr
@H2020_eROSA