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e-ROSA has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 730988
OSFair2017 | Athens, 6 September 2017
Madeleine Huber
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
The Roadmap to better food: Using ICT and Open Data to overcome barriers
in the agriculture value chain
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science in agri-food

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Open Science for agri-food?
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Open
Science
Research
(e-)infrastructures
What about
agriculture
& food?

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The data opportunity in agri-food
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Complex challenges to address
> Multidisplinary, multiscale research
> Integrated systems and models
Automation of data collection & new engineering tools
New data sources: IoT, citizen science, social media, etc.
VOLUME and VARIETY of data
+
COMPUTATIONAL
capabilities
+
OPEN data
mouvement
Challenge: Integrate numerous,
heterogeneous and dispersed data

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Why an e-infrastructure?
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We need a common e-infrastructure to:
connect data and connect infrastructures
integrate existing initiatives into a common framework at a global level, facilitate
collaboration
share efforts and resources: provide shared services to integrate, explore and
analyse data
support a collective change of practices through the adoption of shared standards:
support the elaboration and use of FAIR data
provide a pre-competitive space for sharing data and speeding up innovation
processes

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e-ROSA in brief
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Coordination and support action (infrasupp 3 2016)
18 months (01/2017 – 06/2018)
Consortium: INRA (FR), WUR Alterra (NL), Agroknow (GR)
Objective: elaborate a roadmap for an e-infrastructure for open science in agri-food

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e-ROSA approach
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Stakeholder Workshops
① ② ③

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

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Current landscape: Our “Commons”
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Iron and Wires
Interoperability
http://vest.agrisemantics.org
http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/
http://gacs/agrisemantics.org/
Shared semantics
Data, discovery servicesDKAN
Sustainable,
distributed
and trusted
storage &
management
CKAN
DataVerse
Call it
FAIR data
,
Virtual research environments
Data/Information Portals
Data access, publication,
analysis & visualisation
https://data.gov.in/sector/agriculture
BioLink

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Current landscape: Challenges
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Technical challenges
Generic
Content-dependent
(agri-food)
Common interoperability
standards
Long-term preservation
Disruptive technologies
Semantics
Geolocalised data
Data discovery
Data processing
Cultural challenges
Community engagement and incentives
Policies and regulation
Sustainability and governance

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

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Towards the e-infrastructure
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EU
Member
States +
RFOs
Global
partners
+++
https://www.open-science-conference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Burgelman_2017-Science-2-Berlin-March-2017.pdf
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/node/47

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What’s next?
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Elaborate roadmap
Prepare for WP 2018-2020
Link with EOSC
Open call to map stakeholders
Case studies and webinars on needs
Build the vision
EOSC
architecture
14-15 Sept.
RDA 10th
Plenary
17-21 Sept.
Linked Open
Data in Ag.
27-28 Sept.
e-ROSA’s 2nd
Stakeholder
Workshop
27-28 Nov.

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Discussion
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Interaction between generic and domain-specific e-infrastructures
What services should be generic? How to ensure affordable and sustainable
access to data analytics and computation to researchers, regardless of their
disciplines or where they are located?
What are the specific service requirements for the Agri-food sciences?

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CONSORTIUM
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