Presentation given during 2017 IC-FOODS Conference held in Davis California Nov. 8, 2017 (https://www.ic-foods.org/pastconference/schedule/). The intent of the conference was to "define the Internet of Food and its capabilities, the progress to date and identify/elicit collaborations for future work." This presentation was one of several for a workshop I co-hosted focused on "The IoF for food expertise, education, community, and innovation." A key point was that the Internet of Food can and should be "designed for conversation" and learning, including informal learning. Semantic web technologies and stacks can help, realizing Tim Berners-Lee's original vision of the World Wide Web, by "bringing the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds".

1. Cultivating Capability
Linking people, technology & information
in support of food systems learning & innovation
Jeff Piestrak, IC-FOODS Conference, Davis CA Nov.8, 2017
Photo by Joel Abroad

2. “When a living system is suffering from ill
health, the remedy is found by connecting
with more of itself.”
- Francisco Varela
Photo by Joel Abroad, https://www.flickr.com/photos/40295335@N00/4888037629/

3. “The web is more
a social creation
than a technical
one. I designed it
for a social effect
– to help people
work together –
and not as a
technical toy.”

4. “Conversation is the best learning technology ever invented”
Creating Leaders for the 21st Century, Jay Cross, Inside Learning Technologies & Skills, December 2011
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0fe2c869
www.informl.com

5. www.informl.com

6. www.informl.com

7. www.informl.com

8. http://thewisdomeconomy.blogspot.com/2011/08/opportunities-in-chaos.html
How can IoF be “designed for conversation”,
a networked platform supporting…

9. …learning & innovation “in place”?

10. OPEN DATA INTERMEDIARIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
François van Schalkwyk, Michael Caňares, Sumandro Chattapadhyay &
Alexander Andrason https://webfoundation.org/research/open-data-intermediaries-in-
developing-countries/
“Consideration needs to be given to the presence of multiple
intermediaries in an open data ecosystem, each of whom
may possess different forms of capital to enable the use and
unlock the potential impact of open data.”
Some assembly required, of
“complementary configurations of capital”

11. Semantic Web Stack (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web_Stack)
Starting and ending with T-R-U-S-T

12. Recognizing that open is not enough…
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/oehr/article/449547

13. “Building the capacity of potential stakeholders to both
understand the potential of open data for agriculture
and nutrition and to engage with it practically.”
Sociotechnical capacity building also needed
http://www.godan.info/godan-action/approach

14. ..and FAIR data & information
https://www.force11.org/fairprinciples

15. The government
should provide
fundamental
applications and
services on which
we, the people, can
build additional
applications.
A call to action:
public sector as platform…
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000774/ch02.html

16. www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/agriculture-human-sciences-and-natural-resources/healthy-food-systems-healthy-people/
Facilitating transdisciplinary collaboration in
support of healthy food systems & healthy people
“Making a positive difference on human
health, will require collaborations and
integration among agriculture, food,
nutrition, and health care systems that have
never before been explored or optimized”

17. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/48205
People’s Colleges as People’s Platform?

18. Land Grant
Libraries, other
intermediaries
State & Federal
Data/Info
(e.g. USDA, Census)
Cooperative
Extension
Private & Civic Sector
Agrifood Systems
Actors
Linking & leveraging complementary configurations
of capital, creating “Land Grant Knowledge Graph”

19. Supporting:
• Research, Education
& Outreach
• Life, Applied Sciences
• Ag & Food Systems
• Land Grant Mission
Albert R Mann Library
Cornell University

20. Sharable Outputs
Extension bulletins,
guides, brochures,
web pages
Sharable Outputs
Articles, reports,
books
Sharable Outputs
Data sets, recordings
Sharable Outputs
Lit reviews,
proposals
Conceptualization
Data
Collection
& Analysis
Findings
Translation
& Engagement
Our
Scholarly
Ecosystem

21. Yet many remain siloed, disconnected,
hard to access, share, use or combine…

22. Connecting our silos via networked repositories,
“optimizing for pull”…
ETDs
(Theses)
Books,
Articles Images
Audio-
Visual
Research
Data
Maps
& GIS Documents
Scalable, Robust,
Shared Management
and Preservation
Services
Hydra for CNI Spring 2014 Meeting, http://www.slideshare.net/Tom-Cramer/hydra-for-cni-spring-2014-33003596

24. https://agriknowledge.org/

25. http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu

26. https://scholars.cornell.edu
Expertise discovery systems also needed

27. Developing, linking sophisticated ontologies

28. Feed Machine
&
Symplectic Elements
Data Distribution API
User Interface
Scholars@Cornell
Visualizations
data generation
User friendly/helpful tools for adding,
managing & leveraging data important too!

29. https://cris.nifa.usda.gov/
As well as linkages to other structured
data, e.g. SCOPUS, and USDA Current
Research Information System (CRIS)…

30. CRIS search results for “malnutrition”

34. Unique Author/Researcher IDs like ORCID (Open Researcher and
Contributor ID) can also be used to extend knowledge graph…

35. https://cugir.library.cornell.edu

36. CUGIR 3.0 Architecture overview
GeoServer
POSTGIS
AMAZON
S3
GeoBlacklight
Search Index
Data files (zip)
Metadata files
Web services
GIS Data

39. The vision I have for the
Web is about anything
being potentially
connected with
anything…that provides
us with new freedom…
unfettered by the
hierarchical classification
systems into which we’ve
bound ourselves….
bringing the workings of
society closer to the
workings of our minds.

40. Community Café screenshot here…
Bringing it home: linking the semantic web to our
most powerful social technology, conversation…

41. http://cognexus.org/id41.htm

42. Is the “ultimate destiny” of the WWW to
be an “Argument Web” designed for
conversation, better aligned with the
way we socially construct knowledge?

43. http://www.argumentinterchange.org
How might the IoF stack be developed
& arranged in support of that function?

44. Thanks for your time…
-now lets build this thing!
Jeff Piestrak
jmp36@cornell.edu
Photo by Joel Abroad