Matthias Filter & Michal Czyz from BfR on the DEMETER - ERKEP and Current Status of the ERKEP Concept Note. Joint Workshop on Food Risk Assessment Research & Practice 24th November 2017, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

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DEMETER –
ERKEP and Current Status of the ERKEP
Concept Note
Michal Czyz and Matthias Filter

2. DEMETER WP4 objective
Develop collaborative Emerging Risk Knowledge Exchange
Platform (ERKEP) supporting current EFSA procedures for
emerging risks identification based on KNIME Server
infrastructure
To allow EU Member State authorities and EFSA to share
knowledge, data and methods for the identification of
emerging food-related îssues in a rapid and effective manner
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ERKEP long term vision => ERKEP Concept Note
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3. ERKEP Concept Note Status
Concept note brainstorming: started
Terminology clarification: started
Feature collection: started
Constrains collection: started
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4. ERKEP Concept Note - feature list
Communication:
• supporting both group and `person to person`
communication including communication history
• simultaneous online editing
• possibility to add 3rd party add-ons/plugins to easily
broaden functionality when needed
• video-conferencing
• accessible from desktop app/mobile app, which allows for
constant contact
System administration:
• user rights management
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5. ERKEP Concept Note - feature list
Project management:
• support time management for projects and project team,
e.g. via Gantt Charts
• support project workflow design, e.g. via ticket system
(which will have option to be based on Kanban
methodology).
• control tasks completion and deadlines
• support Stakeholder involvement in general
• support multistage tasks, i.e. allow division of tasks into
stages with different TM and St involved
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6. ERKEP Concept Note - feature list
Data management system
• quickly share links, files, pictures according to projects
(linked to user management system)
• version control of documents (full document tracing: who,
when, what, why)
• search, sort and filter function for documents
• option to publish dedicated reports / documents to St or the
public
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7. ERKEP Concept Note - feature list
Knowledge management system
• Glossary
• Information resource inventory
• Links to data sources, data services:
• Data analysis and data mining workflows
– KNIME based workflows, e.g. SiLeBAT NewsRadar
– Generalized Morphological Analysis
– Bayesian methods
• Software inventory
• Code snippets, scripts including sample input files for execution of
code snippets
• Model inventory
• Data inventory
– internal data collected and stored by EREN or ERKEP
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8. ERKEP Concept Note - feature list
Other:
• Emerging Risk NewsFeed (e.g. RSS): provide on daily basis
information from web sites straight into ERKEP or to the St. In case of
outbreak frequency of newsfeeding might be set higher.
• Graph Maker – quick, high quality graphs and charts (possibly
interactive) to place it in the reports or directly communicate it to other
platform users (GP also?).
• Reporting tool - to avoid problems with portability of document format
types
• Open access repository to public part of documents/report, workflows,
models etc.
• Tool to upload models, which after checking are included in repository
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9. What is KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner)?
- free, open source data integration and analysis
platform (www.knime.org )
- created and hosted by KNIME.com
- first version released in 2006
- “scientific workflow management system”
- community tool for data integration, transformation,
modeling and visualization
- strongly applied in pharmaceutical research (virtual
drug design & cheminformatics)
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10. Node
Description
Workflow
in use
Workflows
Nodes
Results
Charts / Views / Tables
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11. KNIME Server
Power Users
Administators
Management
BusinessUsers
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Thank you for your attention
Matthias Filter
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10  10589 Berlin, GERMANY
Phone +49 30 - 184 12 - 2209  Fax +49 30 - 184 12 - 47 41
matthias.filter@bfr.bund.de  www.bfr.bund.de/en