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More information at: http://www.b2match.eu/emergenceforum2014
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Submitted to:
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- The document outlines eROSA's status in implementing facets of openness, interoperability, and reuse within the agricultural domain. It closes with eROSA's vision for collaborative, region-specific food systems by
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eROSA Policy WS2: Big Data for Disrupting the Grapevine-powered Industries
1. How can we improve food
production and safety through an
open approach?
Big Data for Disrupting the
Grapevine-powered Industries
Panagiotis Zervas
Director of Project Management
Agroknow
3. Grapevine &
vineyard
R&D
SALES
Distribution to
EU + global
markets
Processing
factories &
Chemistry
laboratories
Processing
factories /
facilities
Winery
facilities
Production
vineyards
Packaging
Cultivating &
testing grape
varieties in
experimental
vineyards
Measuring +
analyzing
properties /
behavior of grape
varieties
Aging & Bottling
Processing grapes
for other products
Drying grapes
for raisins
Producing
grape juice
for food
Processing grapes/juice to
distill phenolic extract for
natural cosmetics
4. Grapevine &
vineyard
R&D
SALES
Distribution to
EU + global
markets
Processing
factories &
Chemistry
laboratories
Processing
factories /
facilities
Winery
facilities
Production
vineyards
Packaging
Data powered decisions
DECISION:
Raw materials
& products
selection
DECISION: Product
Quality Control &
Assurance
DECISION: Selection
Of Raw Materials &
Extracts As Side
Products
DECISION: Efficient
Management Of
Vineyard
DECISION:
Informing
Consumer Choice
DECISION: Brand
Development &
Storytelling
5. SALES
Distribution to
EU + global
markets
Processing
factories &
Chemistry
laboratories
Processing
factories /
facilities
Winery
facilities
Production
vineyards
Grapevine &
vineyard
R&D
Packaging
Extremely Large & heterogeneous data flows
6.
7. BigDataGrapes - Big Data to Enable Global
Disruption of the Grapevine-powered industries
Targets technology challenges of the grapevine-powered data
economy (Wine Industry and Natural Cosmetics) as its business
problems and decisions requires processing, analysis and visualisation
of data with rapidly increasing volume, velocity and variety
Partners
Agroknow (GR)
Ontotext (BG)
CNR (IT)
Katholieke
Universiteit
Leuven (BE)
Agricultural
University of
Athens (GR)
ABACO (IT)
Geocledian
(DE)
APIGEA (GR)INRA (FR)
9. BigDataGrapes Data Challenges
(related to the 3rd Strategic Research and Innovation agenda of BDVA)
• Data Management
– Distributed Big Data Indexing
– Large-scale Ontology Alignment and Data
Harmonisation
• Data Processing
– Scalable Real-time Distributed Processing
– Task-dependent Load Balancing and Resource Usage
• Data Analytics
– Distributed Machine Learning Techniques
• Data Visualization & User Interaction
– Uncertainty-aware Scalable Visualisations
– Trust-aware Decision Support Systems