Towards a Global Network of
Food Safety Knowledge Hubs
KLSWG Database Subgroup
Knowledge & Learning Systems
Working Group
GFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

short version of story

expectations (from GFSP documents)
“Address critical gaps in coordination of capacity
building initiatives through an open source
knowledge sharing platform and community of
practice.”
“The GFSP will help improve access to such capacity
building programs both through establishing and/or
supporting a virtual depository, and through
engaging and facilitating the stakeholders’ access to
these programs.”

GFSP Coordinated Approach for
Greater Impact
Separate Independent (variably
linked) actions
Collective and Cohesive Approach
(More Collaboration, Coordination,
Communication, Connection)

Global Food Safety
Knowledge Hub
Local Food Safety
Knowledge Hubs
Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Local Food Safety
Community Hubs
Global Food Safety
Community Hub
Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

hub vs. centralized approach
• information resides at site of provider
– (metadata) descriptions exchanged, facilitate information
dissemination & discovery; same provenance & maintenance
– powerful framework for multilingual information discovery
• secure & safe way of exchanging information
– define access, use, re-use rights & licenses
– unique identification of information entities; Communication,
Coordination, Collaboration, Educations and Training (CCCET)
across disparate systems
• enhancing existing sites/platforms with information
– existing systems interoperable; not building yet-another-system
– users discover more relevant data through platforms they already
use

open, scalable architecture
Global Food Safety Knowledge Hub
Data set sources
GFSP registry node
Food safety data & knowledge sources
OER sources
GFSP registry node
Publication sources
GFSP registry node
…etc

main components of global hub
GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY
KNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGE-
MENT
TOOLKIT
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES

GFSP demonstrator
Running at: http://greenlearningnetwork.com/gfsp/

JIFSAN demonstrator
Running at: http://greenlearningnetwork.com/jifsan/

diving deeper

GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY
KNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGEME
NT TOOLKIT
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES

GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY
KNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGEME
NT TOOLKIT
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES

hub as a global knowledge registry
Global Food Safety Knowledge Hub
Data set sources
GFSP registry node
Food safety data & knowledge sources
OER sources
GFSP registry node
Publication sources
GFSP registry node
…etc

sharing information with different
levels of access
• a complex combination of a multi-layer and multi-
stakeholder licensing problem with a security problem for
sensitive or protected information
• examples of questions:
– Who has credentials to access a specific training program or
data set?
– To which food safety training should a credential holder have
access to?
– Which are the access, re-use, re-purposing licenses that these
credential holders have with my data?
– What are the roles, agencies and contact information associated
with these individuals?
– How do I ensure that exposing my content to the network does
not open a security breach that I cannot locate?

enhanced federation of registries

machine-to-machine data exchange scenario
FDA
NEHA
FSCR
IFPTI
NCFPD
CoreSHIELD
6 organizations
12 API handshakes
…what about:
- individual roles in
organizations?
- multiple
databases/collections
- license per intended
use?
- (more/better)
to use CCCET framework as
starting point

GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUBKNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS
KNOWLEDGE
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGEME
NT TOOLKIT
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY

(meta)data ingestion
various tasks, fully or partially or not automated:
Metadata acquisition and preparation:
transform, correct, identification, filtering,
post-processing, broken link-checking
Maintenance of aggregated metadata: up-to-
date metadata records, broken link-checking

example: fully automated workflow
Metadata
harvester
Filtering
component
Stores
File system
(DC, IEEE
LOM, MODS
XML)
File system
(DC, IEEE
LOM, MODS
XML)
Stores
Identification and
de-duplication
component
MySQL
Dupli
cates
Stores
Transformation
component
( to AKIF)
Store
metadata in
JSON (Internal
Format)
Link checking
component
PostProcessing/
Enrichment
component
File
system
(XMLs)
Get unique ID
Records
with
Broken
Links
Indexing mechanism
API

GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUB KNOWLEDGE
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGEME
NT TOOLKIT
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY
KNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES

curation before publication

metadata enrichment

metadata quality/analytics

GLOBAL
FOOD SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE
HUB KNOWLEDGE
HUB
CURATION &
MANAGEME
NT TOOLKIT
FEDERATED
KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERY
SERVICES
KNOWLEDGE
SOURCES &
ENTITIES
REGISTRY
KNOWLEDGE
PUBLISHING
& INGESTION
WORKFLOWS

hub powering multiple sites/platforms
…etc
…etc

multi-device knowledge access
Global Food Safety Knowledge Hub
Data set sources
GFSP registry node
Food safety data & knowledge sources
OER sources
GFSP registry node
Publication sources
GFSP registry node
…etc

pilot validation options
A. develop the technology components of the
Global Food Safety Knowledge Hub (registry,
ingestion, curation, federated discovery) as
fully operating services
B. select & fully develop & validate part of
solutions in an existing or new project

what we could envision further

shaping a big, hairy goal
• create an open source knowledge sharing
platform that may help coordinate
capacity building initiatives and improve
access to food safety capacity building
programs and knowledge resources on a
global scale

need of a global platform (1/2)
• an open, online “database” of all relevant
information entities and sources
– data (primary), metadata, sets, collections,
aggregations, …
– knowledge (processed data), visualisations, sequences,
maps, semantics, mash ups, …
– case studies, models, processes, protocols,
experiments, …
– online courses, training programs, training activities, …
– training providers, content providers, local trainers, …

need of a global platform (2/2)
• but also
– organizations, institutions, businesses, groups,
networks, donors, …
– challenges, problems, issues, policies, …
– resources, funding, investments, results, …
– projects, initiatives, activities, outcomes, …
– training software apps, algorithms, …

challenge: putting this together
• going beyond a single platform, envisioning an
open, scalable architecture that…
– …will catalog all relevant information entities
– …will make all information easily readable and discoverable by
humans & software systems
– …will allow content providers express how, with whom, under
which license and for which purposes they share this info
– …will help people combine, aggregate, filter collectively
contributed information
– …will make funding & resource use transparent for donors and
the public
– …more

federate & include: more data sets

federate & include: more data sets

federate & include: more data sets

federate & include: more organizations

federate & include: more organizations

include donors

include projects

include funding allocation

and the list goes on…

…so what could be of relevance?
(+what could come next?)