This document outlines a plan to elicit requirements from the agri-food research community in Europe for big data and data management needs. It involves conducting an online survey promoted through the agINFRA community, as well as telephone/Skype interviews and interactive sessions at major agri-food events. The goals are to understand the research community, collect their data requirements, present results on the BDE website, and map the BDE platform to the identified needs. Target personas include project coordinators and knowledge/data managers from Horizon 2020 agri-food projects.

1. WP 2:
FOOD & AGRICULTURE
REQUIREMENTS
ELICITATION
Thodoris Kontogiannis, Nikos Manouselis, Valeria Pesce – Agro-Know,
FAO

2. Agri-food Requirements
elicitation
 Online survey dedicated to Horizon 2020 agri-
food projects and their needs for Big Data and
Big Data Management.
 Phone calls/ Skype interviews/ face-to-face
meetings.
 Interactive sessions in workshops and
thematic events for agri-food domain, in order
to attract Project Coordinators of agri-food
Horizon 2020 projects – ask POs to give us
access to related agri-food projects.

3. Targeted personas in agri-food
sector

4. Persona #1: Project Coordinator
o Works at research center or university lab
o The majority of funding is coming from EC
o Is a researcher/ staff/ research associate/ post-
doc at a research center OR a professor/ post-
doc at a university lab
o Has experience in past EU funded projects (e.g.
FP7).
o Coordinates an Horizon 2020 project or is a
Dissemination WP Leader for an Horizon 2020
Project.

5. Persona #2: Knowledge/ Data
Manager
 Knowledge/ Data Manager
o Works in a university or a research institute’s
Library, Knowledge Management Team.
o Has worked before in data management plans for
his organizations’ researchers.
o Has prepared/ or was asked to prepare data
management OA guidelines for his institution
researchers.
o Is participating in Dissemination WP of a Horizon
2020 project OR is the Dissemination WP Leader.

6. How to approach them?

7. agINFRA community
the European hub for data-powered
research on agriculture, food and the
environment
a) a research data sharing help desk &
service point for Horizon 2020
projects in our thematic areas
b) a big (research) data machine &
stack of technologies
c) an ecosystem for research data
scientists, developers, startups

8. agINFRA & BDE
 agINFRA is aiming towards a community-specific reference point
for research & academic institutions carrying out work with funding
from the Horizon 2020 framework programme
o domain-specific support on implementation of
EC’s (and other donors) Open Access
requirements, Data Management Plans, etc.
o help publishing & linking research outcomes from
Horizon 2020 projects (esp. publications,
research data sets)
o serve as a hub for disseminating research
outcomes to EU and global e-infrastructures (i.e.
OpenAIRE, AGRIS)

9. agINFRA & BDE

10. Online Survey

11. Online Survey
 Use dedicated BDE landing page that will be
promoted through the agINFRA community for
requirements elicitation.

12. Telephone/ Skype Interviews

13. Interviews
 Interview script
 Requirements
collection

14. Interactive Sessions/
Workshops

15. Interactive Sessions/
Workshops
 Ask POs to connect with Project Coordinators
of agri-food Horizon 2020 projects.
 Send invitation emails to Project Coordinators
for interactive sessions at major agri-food
events.
Collect requirements in interactive
sessions or satellite events of big
European events
e.g. 6th
RDA plenary meeting in Paris
(eligible for many thematic areas)
Water specific: Global Water Pathogens
Project - Community

16. Outcomes
 Understand & depict the European research
community in agri-food sector.
 Collect their data requirements.
 Present the results of the survey in BDE
website (expose the the data to the BDE site
through API).
 Map the BDE platform features with the needs
of the research agri-food community.

17. Previous examples

18. Overview
APAP
IIworkshops
Requirements
Reporting

19. Please provide your feedback!
Give 8 minutes of
your time to
complete the agri-
food survey and give
us your comments!