1. eROSA has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 730988
eROSA 1st workshop
Towards an e-infrastructure roadmap for open science in agriculture
Introduction
Odile Hologne, INRA, Head of the department of scientific information
eROSA coordinator

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1st Workshop, July 6th and 7th, 2017
Topics for this introduction
eROSA in brief : the project and its goals
Why you are here – and who is here
The workshop
 As a milestone of the project
 What we’d like to achieve

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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)
Main ideas : build a roadmap, strenghten the
community
« 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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The need for a roadmap
A puzzle of different component
Need to build a share vision
No real research infrastructure in agri-food
(ESFRI in environment, genomics, earth
observation …)

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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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Open Science and Agriculture
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-science
- From small data to big and smart data
- Open research data
- Data sharing for scientific purpose
- Research transparency (hot 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
- Predictive biology
- Data science for policy making

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European open science cloud (EOSC)
From Jean Claude Burgelman – DG RTD
Agri-food sciences

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Data challenges in agri-food sciences
Massive data production in labs (sensors, robots, models ….)
but also in farms (of huge interest for science)
 Big data : more variety than volume
Data silos, poorly documented, not easy to find, nor to access
Multidisciplinary sciences
Different level of maturity of the practices about data
(management, sharing, analysis)
Private and public data, research vs business
Not only about data : code, workflow …

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E-infrastructure to support open agri-food
sciences

10. eROSA methodology
1
WP1: Ecosystem &
Community

11. First approach
The workshop

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Where are you from ?
IT specialists, Computer sciences
Knowledge managers, semantics
Researchers from disciplinary
fields linked to agri-food-env

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Goals of the workshop
Share information
Improve the analysis of the data ecosystem
Identification of gaps for e-/infrastructures in
agriculture & food
Identification of key collaboration actions to
implement
Help to build the vision (next step)

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Today’s Agenda
Introduction
Setting the scene : the data challenges …
3 parallel sessions
 same model : input + discussion + report
 3 topics
• (meta)Data Fairification
• Data repositories and discovery services
• E-infrastructure and their services
Lunch and dinner !

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Some topics to explore
Data fairifycation : linked data everywhere ?
What is reasonnable to do ….
Data repositories : how to find them, trust,
quality, certification ?
E-infra and services : link between generic
and « applied » e-infra
Identify the commons (in the 3 sessions)

16. 7th July
Conclusion of the
workshop

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Expected output
Immaterial :
 A shared analysis of the actual landscape
 A common framework to build the vision for the e-
infrastructure
 Topics to explore deeper, key actions
Concrete – short term:
 contribution to the work of the fair data expert group
 vision paper (part of a deliverable) open for comments
• discussed during next RDA plenary for the first draft
 be ready for the next steps : thematic cloud and after

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https://www.open-science-conference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Burgelman_2017-Science-2-
Berlin-March-2017.pdf

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https://www.open-science-conference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Burgelman_2017-Science-2-
Berlin-March-2017.pdf
+++

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Next steps : from july to december
Write the report/map « current landscape,
trends, disruption … » open for comments
Be more focus on the users needs
 use cases, demonstrators
 now (our gems) , visionnary use cases/demo
Start building the vision
Prepare the next workshop : 11/27-28/2017
at WUR
Follow @H2020_eROSA !

21. CONSORTIUM
WWW.EROSA.AGINFRA.EU
Thank you for your participation!
And many thanks to the eROSA team