From Open Access to Open data, our initiatives

From Open Access to Open Data in Agriculture:
FAO analysis of some international initiatives and
projects for datasharing

Presentation at the INRA workshop “Open Science”,
Paris, 16 April 2013

Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

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Disappearing Data
These are the data from my Phd
thesis, I started to look for them

2

http://aims.fao.org johannes keizer

https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


2nd Google Search
https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Bi
otransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Bi
otransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://agris.fao.org/agris-
search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV2012002800028.xml%3BDE199400
07889

http://aims.fao.org johannes keizer 4

…at the end I found a record about
my PhD thesis, somewhat
proud, that I found it through
AGRIS, our own service.
But the data could not be found, they
were practically lost in the few print
copies and microfiche of the thesis

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There will be generated more
scientific data in the next 5 years
than in the history of humankind


The distribution pattern is changing


Data definition

Data: digital recorded
factual material commonly
accepted n the scientific
community as necessary
to validate research
findings

....what is data


Distributed Repositories
• stats How can I get in real time all the specimen data on
• gene banksuseful insects from all people making research on this
on my desktop? How can I share in real time my data
• gis data
with other colleagues working on that.
• blogs,
• journals
• open archives
• raw data
• technologies
• learning objects
• ………..


..we dream of


The world of which we dream


Mechanisms
 Political awareness and institutional
readiness
• CIARD http://www.ciard.net

 Community of practice and collaboration
platform
• AIMS (http://aims.fao.org)

 Implementation mechanisms
• Collaborations with other institutions
• Funded projects

http://www.ciard.net

To make agricultural
research information and
knowledge publicly
accessible to all


http://ring.ciard.net/


http://aims.fao.org


RDA & agricultural data
A Domain Interest Group to represent all stakeholders
producing, managing, aggregating, sharing, consuming data
from/for agricultural research & innovation
• will bring existing problems & experience on the table
• pave the way for a number of domain-specific WGs (e.g. germplasm
databases)
• serve as a well-supported and politically important domain case for
other WGs (e.g. preservation, PID)
• Positioned carefully to serve as an interface to existing fora become their
mechanism and interface for consultation with research data
infrastructures


Rajender, ICAR

I would like to submit that the Data sharing policy is a pre-cursor to data management.
When I say data sharing policy, it should include methodology and means of sharing and
should have inbuilt component of IPR protection. We should also think of some value
addition to data shared as it would motivate the researchers to share the data.

We have been trying to create a Research Data Repository. We, however, find that the
researchers are very enthuasistic in sharing the data. Therefore, data sharing policy
must also contain some value addition guidelines which would encourage researchers to
share data in their respective domains.

Along with data sharing we also need to talk on Standardization protocol. We at ICAR
have initiated an Information System on Designed Experiments. One can register as a
guest and
look into the basic data at http://js.iasri.res.in:8080/afeis/index.html.

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Working Group on Wheat Data


Data availability today


wheat data WG (18m)
Wheat: high societal and political priority & impact
G20 priority & initiative (http://www.wheatinitiative.org)
in line with G8 Open Agricultural Data efforts
Complex data interoperability problems
Germplasm data
Genetic and phenotypic data
Statistical data (yield, surface, consumption …)
Bibliographic data
…more


expected WG outcomes
A cookbook on exposing and linking wheat-related
databases/repositories
i. existing data types & selection of sample data sources to
be covered
ii. review of open formats for wheat data types
iii. recommendations for open & linked exposure of wheat
data
iv. exposure of sample wheat data sources from international
partners
v. promotion through relevant campaign
(online, workshops, …)


Open Data:
Opportunities, problems and
challenges exemplified on an
AGRIS record

http://agris.fao.org/openagr
is/search.do?recordID=JP2
009006327


..and more

 http://rd-alliance.org/
 http://www.aginfra.eu
 http://agris.fao.org/
 http://aims.fao.org
 http://ring.ciard.net
 http://www.ciard.net

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