This presentation by Imma Subirats was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu

1. Enabling the exchange and
use of data in agriculture
Imma Subirats
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructure Workshop – July 5, 2017
Liber Annual Conference, Patras (Greece)

2. Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity
Development (OPC)
Responsible for providing corporate strategic advice and developing the
tools and methodologies and long-term vision that will allow FAO
to proactively engage in partnerships, advocate its messages and
develop capacities in all areas comprised in the Organization’s
five Strategic Objectives

3. Food and Agriculture

4. F(indable) - A(ccessible) – R(e-usable)
• Predominantly institutional policies, using disciplinary or
multidisciplinary repositories
• Specialized networks bring data together, like
• Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project
(AgMIP) (Crop growth models)
• Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas (GYGA)
• Use of IDs
• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
(TPGRFA)

5. I(nteroperable)
Research Data Alliance (RDA)
Interest Group on Agricultural
Data (IGAD)
Formed in 2013, IGAD has
grown in community strength
to over 150 members,
becoming one of the RDA’s
most prominent Thematic
Groups
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/agriculture-data-interest-group-igad.html

6. IGAD/RDA Activities
Multi-faceted approach, splintering into specific Working Groups (WG)
each with their own tangible goals
• Wheat Data Interoperability WG
• Rice Data Interoperability WG
• Agrisemantics WG
• Soil Data WG
• Ongoing discussions to start WGs on On-farm data sharing, Capacity
development, Climate/Weather Data, Metrics and indicators in agricultural
science
Next Meeting Montreal
17 to 18 September 2017

7. Wheat Data Interoperability WG
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8. Rice Data Interoperability WG

9. AgriSemantics WG
The goal is to gather community-based requirements and use cases for an
infrastructure that supports appropriate use of semantics for data interoperability,
with special focus on agriculture.
The outputs of the WG will be:
• A report on semantics landscape for agricultural data
• A set of use cases and requirements
• A document on recommendations for the future of semantics for agricultural
data - software, functionalities, semantic assets to enhance data
interoperability in agriculture.

10. On-Farm Data Sharing WG

11. Soil Data Interoperability

12. I(nteroperable)
Global map of existing
vocabularies for the exchange
of data in the field of food and
agriculture.
http://aims.fao.org/vest-registry?page=49

13. Discussion
Thank you for your attention!
Comments are welcome!