eROSA has received funding from the European Union to map out the technical ecosystem for open agriculture and food science data. The mapping is based on analyzing various eROSA, RDA, and other project activities and identifies organizations, initiatives, data sources, and research infrastructures. The landscape analysis found that while there is massive data production, data is often siloed and difficult to find or access due to immature practices around data management, sharing, and analysis. Challenges include technical issues like long-term preservation and semantics standardization as well as cultural challenges engaging communities and developing sustainable governance models.

1. eROSA has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 730988
E-infrastructure for open agri-food
sciences – The landscape
Odile Hologne, INRA, Head of the department of scientific information
eROSA coordinator @Holo_08
@H2020_eROSA
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/

2. Methodology

3. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Based on synergies of different activities
e-ROSA activities : bibliometric analysis,
mapping, workshops
RDA activities : working groups
GODAN activities
Projects : Aginfra+, OpenMinted, WheatIS,
GODAN Action …
Global knowledge of the ecosystem linked to
FAO activities and other partners

4. http://www.aginfra.eu/discover
http://www.aginfra.eu
Content :
 Organisations: the organisations (e.g. research performing
organisations, ministries, international organisations) within the e-
ROSA scope; “data producers”, “data experts” , “data policy”
 Initiatives: Projects, networks and other initiatives within the e-ROSA
scope
 Data points: all forms of data sources directly or indirectly providing
access to data in the field of agriculture and food ; answers the
question “how to get data?”
 Facilities: research infrastructures and e-infrastructures that provide
one or several types of data services (e.g. modeling infrastructures,
data management infrastructures, etc.); answers the question “what
can you do with data?”
Issue to define the data services
http://einfracentral.eu/basic-page/e-infrastructure-catalogue-
alignment
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/mapping-landscape-ig
AgINFRA/e-ROSA online map

5. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
How to analyze the technical ecosystem ?
https://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/recommendation-jan-2017-v8.pdf

6. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
E-infra conceptuel framework to understand the
ecosystem

7. Some results

8. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Main ideas
Massive data production in labs (sensors,
robots, models ….) but also in farms or by
citizens (of huge interest for science)
 Big data : more variety than volume
 space, time and scale issues
Data silos, poorly documented
Not easy to find, nor to access
Different level of maturity of the practices
about data (management, sharing, analysis)

9. Federation of Plant Information systems
Data end points
INRA
VIB
WUR
...
Data Cache
Data Harvester Web
Service
Web User
interface
Batch
Download
BrAPI-based improved plant portal
+ Validation tools
Focused on phenotyping data
Improve/complete a common
BrAPI/MIAPPE compliant
data model
www.brapi.org
www.miappe.org
Source : Hadi Quesneville, INRA

10. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
4th RDA Europe Science workshop 25-26 April 2017
Data practices
Drawings sources :
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/fourth-
plenary/plenary-cartoons.html
Survey : Wheat data interoperability WG, RDA
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/wheat-data-
interoperability-wg.html

11. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Some of the gems
Data repositories +/- open
Data catalog : http://ring.ciard.net/
Resources catalog: semantics, metadata
http://vest.agrisemantics.org
http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/
http://agrisemantics.org/
GACS

12. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Implementation Status of key services
https://eoscpilot.eu/content/erosa-position-paper
Johannes Keizer, e-ROSA project

13. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Potential Governance and business model issues
Certification rules and mechanism
Business model for the « common goods » such as semantic core,
discovery services …
https://eoscpilot.eu/content/erosa-position-paper
Johannes Keizer, e-ROSA project

14. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
E-ROSA 3rd Workshop, Athens, May 2018
Current landscape: Challenges
Technical challenges
Generic
Content-dependent
(agri-food)
Long-term preservation
Data processing
Authentication and access rights
Data types
……
Semantics - standards
From genes to ecosytem
Public and private stakeholders
Registry of services
….
Cultural challenges
Community engagement and incentives
Policies, regulation, certification specially for services
Sustainability and governance
Require-
ments
Asses-
sment
Certification
communi
cation

15. CONSORTIUM
WWW.EROSA.AGINFRA.EU
Thank you for your attention!
odile.hologne@inra.fr
@Holo_08
@H2020_eROSA