Panagiotis Zervas presentation during the eROSA Policy Workshop in Brussels, 19 June 2018

1. Technical Recommendations for the Future State of an
e-Infrastructure in Agri-Food Sciences
Panagiotis Zervas
(pzervas@agroknow.com)

2. PRESENTATION
CHAPTERS
LINK TO ROADMAP DOCUMENT
THE PRESENT
TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS
ABSTRACT FUTURE ARCHITECTURE
THE FUTURE
THE PAST

3. LINK TO ROADMAP DOCUMENT
CORRESPONDS TO SECTION 6 ON RECOMMENDATIONS (PART ON SERVICES AND
TECHNICAL BACKBONE
CORRESPONDS TO SECTION 5 ON A PAN-EUROPEAN E-INFRASTRUCTURE IN AGRI-FOOD
FEEDBACK AND INSIGHTS WELCOME THROUGH OPEN CONSULTATION

4. THE
PAST

5. WHAT WERE THINGS LIKE?
EACH ORGANIZATION CONDUCTED ITS RESEARCH IN ITS OWN INFRASTRUCTURE (AND
OFTEN PREMISES)
ISOLATED RESEARCH AND DATA SILOS
INFORMATION AND DATA EXCHANGE WAS INDIRECT (PUBLICATIONS, PROVISION OF DATA
AND MODELS UPON REQUEST, MANUAL SEARCHES)

6. THE PAST
SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE

7. THE
PRESENT

8. WHAT ARE THINGS LIKE NOW?
A SET OF BASIC, CROSS-COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE HORIZONTALLY USED BY ALL
STAKEHOLDERS
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (COMPUTATIONAL AND STORAGE RESOURCES) ARE SHARED
AND ACCESSIBLE TO MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS
MORE INTRICATE OPERATIONS, THOUGH COMMON, ARE SERVED BY DISJOINT SERVICES,
EVEN WITHIN THE SAME COMMUNITIES
INTEGRATION AND SHARING OF SUCH SERVICES IS PERFORMED AT A GENERIC LEVEL,
LEAVING MORE COMPLEX FUNCTIONALITY OUTSIDE THE SHARED BASEGROUND

9. THE PRESENT
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
AUTHENITCATION
& AUTHORIZATION
MINING
SERVICE #1
MINING
SERVICE #2
LINKING
SERVICE #1
SEMANTIC
ENRICHMENT
SERVICE #1
MINING
SERVICE #3
DATA
QUALITY
SERVICE #1
OPTIMIZATION
SERVICE #1
ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING
STORAGE
MANAGEMENT
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES

10. COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES
USING COMMON TECHNOLOGIES
GENERIC COLLABORATIVE SPACES
INTEGRATING SUBSETS OF SERVICES
AUTHENITCATION
& AUTHORIZATION ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING STORAGE MANAGEMENT
STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE

11. THE
FUTURE

12. WHAT WILL THINGS BECOME LIKE?
EXTEND THE SET OF HORIZONTAL SERVICES TO INCLUDE TECHNOLOGIES ALREADY MATURE
IN THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT CAN BE USED WITHIN DIFFERENT
DOMAINS
OPTIMIZE THE USAGE OF SHARED PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EACH COMMUNITY /
COMPUTATIONAL TASK
PROVIDE THE MEANS TO EASILY CUSTOMIZE AND CONFIGURE THE HORIZONTAL SERVICES TO
FULLY ACCOMMODATE THE NEEDS OF A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY
SEAMLESSLY INCORPORATE NEW SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO THE BIG PICTURE

13. THE FUTURE
THE FARM
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
THE LAB
COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
RESEARCH FACILITIES & ESFRI
MINING
SEMANTIC
ENRICHMENT
OPTIMIZATION LINKING QUALITY CONTROL
AUTHENTICATION &
AUTHORIZATION
ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING
STORAGE
MANAGEMENT
CLOUD COMPUTING /
CONTAINER DEPLOYMENT / HPC
ONLINE STORAGE / LONG-TERM STORAGE /
DATA TRANSFER

14. OUR
RECOMMENDATIONS

15. WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE STATE?
BUILD AND MANAGE AT LARGE-SCALE COMMON SEMANTIC SPECIFICATIONS FOR DATA AND
SERVICES, USING WIDELY AGREED STANDARDS AND FORMATS
INCORPORATE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER A FEDERATION LAYER, OPTIMIZING THEIR
USAGE AND SHARING
MAKE CROSS-COMMUNITY SERVICES AVAILABLE VIA SEMANTICALLY ENRICHED
DESCRIPTIONS AND ALLOWING THE AUTOMATION OF THE INTERFACING PROCESS
AUTOMATE THE INCORPORATION OF EXISTING / NEW SERVICES BY ESTABLISHING API
FACTORIES ENSURING THEIR INTEROPERABILITY VIA THE USAGE OF THE COMMON
SEMANTICS AND SPECIFICATIONS
BUILD ON OUR GEMS, WHICH ARE SCATTERED AND DIFFICULT TO FIND AND ACCESS

16. ABSTRACT FUTURE ARCHITECTURE
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC SERVICES (EXISTING OR NEW)
SERVICE #1 SERVICE #2
API FACTORY
API API
ABSTRACTION LAYER
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
FEDERATION LAYER
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SPECIFICATIONLAYER

17. TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS
- TRUST AND PROVENANCE SUPPORTING REPOSITORIES OF DIGITAL ASSETS
- ROBUST REGISTRATION MECHANISMS FOR ADDING SUCH REPOSITORIES TO THE ECOSYSTEM
- TRUST-ENABLED REPOSITORIES FOR PRESERVING AND EXPOSING SEMANTIC RESOURCES
- MACHINE-READABLE AND TRANSPARENT LICENSING MECHANISMS FOR ALL DIGITAL ASSETS
- SECURE AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR ACCESS CONTROL IN ALL REPOSITORIES
A SPECIFICATION LAYER (“A COMMON LANGUAGE”) FOR THE CREATION AND PRESERVATION
OF SHARED AND CONNECTED SEMANTICS FOR DATA, MODELS AND SERVICES
INCORPORATE SOLID RESEARCH RESULTS FROM BIG DATA MINING, DISTRIBUTED AND
LARGE-SCALE ANALYTICS, BIG DATA VISUALIZATION ETC
USER-ORIENTED AND USER-FRIENDLY TOOLS AND SERVICES

18. Dr. Panagiotis Zervas (pzervas@agroknow.com)
Agroknow