How can ‘Yield gap analysis’ be useful :Global yield gap atlas (gyga)ICRISAT
The Global Yield Gap Atlas provides important information on the capacities of various countries to be self-sufficient in staple food crop production now and in the future. So far the Atlas has been populated for 24 countries for five major staple crops (maize, wheat, rice, sorghum and millet) and analyses for 25 additional countries is in progress.
Presentation by Glenn Hyman for the 1st International e-Conference on Germaplasm Data Interoperability. On the experience of AgTrials (www.agtrials.org) in linking to other bioinformatics resources and developing metadata.
To help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data. Within the programme on Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), researchers have already applied Big Data analytics to agricultural and weather records in Colombia, revealing how climate variation impacts rice yields. After defining its Open Data-Open Access strategy, CGIAR has launched an internal call for proposals for big data analytics platforms that will provide services to the Agri-Food system programmes and parners, and will interconnect the CGIAR data to other multi-disciplinary big data. The seminar will present the pespectives of the envisioned platforms.
How can ‘Yield gap analysis’ be useful :Global yield gap atlas (gyga)ICRISAT
The Global Yield Gap Atlas provides important information on the capacities of various countries to be self-sufficient in staple food crop production now and in the future. So far the Atlas has been populated for 24 countries for five major staple crops (maize, wheat, rice, sorghum and millet) and analyses for 25 additional countries is in progress.
Presentation by Glenn Hyman for the 1st International e-Conference on Germaplasm Data Interoperability. On the experience of AgTrials (www.agtrials.org) in linking to other bioinformatics resources and developing metadata.
To help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data. Within the programme on Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), researchers have already applied Big Data analytics to agricultural and weather records in Colombia, revealing how climate variation impacts rice yields. After defining its Open Data-Open Access strategy, CGIAR has launched an internal call for proposals for big data analytics platforms that will provide services to the Agri-Food system programmes and parners, and will interconnect the CGIAR data to other multi-disciplinary big data. The seminar will present the pespectives of the envisioned platforms.
Mining large amounts of existing crop, soil, and climate data, and analyzing new, non-experimental data can help optimize production and make agriculture more resilient to climate change.
SC2 Workshop 1: Big Data challenges and solutions in agricultural and environ...BigData_Europe
“Lightning talk” in the Big Data Europe (BDE) workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges” taking place on 22.9.2015 in Paris by Rob Lokers and Sander Janssen from Alterra, Wageningen UR
The Netherlands.
Sharing of germplasm data sets, at the TDWG 2006 conferenceDag Endresen
Data exchange for germplasm data sets with PyWrapper/BioCASE. TDWG 2006 conference, 16th October 2006, St. Louis. Dag Endresen, Johan Bäckman, Helmut Knupffer, Samy Gaiji.
Report on the Outcomes of the 3rd Workshop 'Creating Impact with Open Data in...Marion Girard Cisneros
This document outlines some of the key action points discussed at the workshop held in February 2017. More information about the workshop: http://bit.ly/2lt7Vbf More information about the impact of open data for agriculture and nutrition: http://bit.ly/2lyjJqW
Big data analysis and Integration of Geophysical information from the Catalan...Andreas Kamilaris
The intensification of agriculture in Catalunya creates serious concerns over its impact on the physical environment, in terms of deteriorating the air, soils as well as rivers and lakes. It is particularly important to quantify and understand this impact, in order to perceive overall implications and to develop effective strategies to mitigate its effects. In this presentation, I describe our efforts in combining geospatial information and big data analysis in order to measure the environmental impact of agriculture, with a focus on animal manure. The problems and issues of discovering, locating and understanding relevant datasets are discussed, together with suggestions on how data could become more open and easier to reach and understand.
Potential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Bekele Hundie Kotu, Abdul Rahman Nurudeen, Francis Muthoni, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Fred Kizito at Tropentag 2020 Conference (virtual), Witzenhausen, Germany, 9 - 11 September 2020.
Presentation by Glenn Hyman and Ernesto Giron on agricultural trial database for climate change adaptation planning, at the 2011 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA, July 14th, 2011
Calling for mechanization: farmers’ willingness to pay for small-scale maize ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Bekele Kotu, Adebayo Abass, Audifas Gaspar, Gundula Fischer, Christopher Mutungi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon and Mateete Bekunda for the Tropentag 2019: Filling Gaps and Removing Traps for Sustainable Resource Management, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, 18–20 September 2019
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Big Data for Building Inclusive Agriculture in Dry Areas ICARDA
25 to 30 August. The World Water Week in Stockholm is an annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and supported by the United Nations water programs.
Wednesday 28 August
“Big data for all”, can it help improve agricultural productivity?
ICRISAT Governing Board 2019 PC meeting: District Level Database for India an...ICRISAT
ICRISAT has started collating meso level database (country, state and district level) since 1980’s, covering 7 states initially, later expanded to 10 states in 1990’s. Currently under a project jointly supported by Tata Cornell Institute on Nutrition and Agriculture (TCI) and ICRISAT (Since May 2018).
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Mining large amounts of existing crop, soil, and climate data, and analyzing new, non-experimental data can help optimize production and make agriculture more resilient to climate change.
SC2 Workshop 1: Big Data challenges and solutions in agricultural and environ...BigData_Europe
“Lightning talk” in the Big Data Europe (BDE) workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges” taking place on 22.9.2015 in Paris by Rob Lokers and Sander Janssen from Alterra, Wageningen UR
The Netherlands.
Sharing of germplasm data sets, at the TDWG 2006 conferenceDag Endresen
Data exchange for germplasm data sets with PyWrapper/BioCASE. TDWG 2006 conference, 16th October 2006, St. Louis. Dag Endresen, Johan Bäckman, Helmut Knupffer, Samy Gaiji.
Report on the Outcomes of the 3rd Workshop 'Creating Impact with Open Data in...Marion Girard Cisneros
This document outlines some of the key action points discussed at the workshop held in February 2017. More information about the workshop: http://bit.ly/2lt7Vbf More information about the impact of open data for agriculture and nutrition: http://bit.ly/2lyjJqW
Big data analysis and Integration of Geophysical information from the Catalan...Andreas Kamilaris
The intensification of agriculture in Catalunya creates serious concerns over its impact on the physical environment, in terms of deteriorating the air, soils as well as rivers and lakes. It is particularly important to quantify and understand this impact, in order to perceive overall implications and to develop effective strategies to mitigate its effects. In this presentation, I describe our efforts in combining geospatial information and big data analysis in order to measure the environmental impact of agriculture, with a focus on animal manure. The problems and issues of discovering, locating and understanding relevant datasets are discussed, together with suggestions on how data could become more open and easier to reach and understand.
Potential impact of groundnut production technology on welfare of smallholder...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Bekele Hundie Kotu, Abdul Rahman Nurudeen, Francis Muthoni, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Fred Kizito at Tropentag 2020 Conference (virtual), Witzenhausen, Germany, 9 - 11 September 2020.
Presentation by Glenn Hyman and Ernesto Giron on agricultural trial database for climate change adaptation planning, at the 2011 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA, July 14th, 2011
Calling for mechanization: farmers’ willingness to pay for small-scale maize ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Bekele Kotu, Adebayo Abass, Audifas Gaspar, Gundula Fischer, Christopher Mutungi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon and Mateete Bekunda for the Tropentag 2019: Filling Gaps and Removing Traps for Sustainable Resource Management, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, 18–20 September 2019
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Big Data for Building Inclusive Agriculture in Dry Areas ICARDA
25 to 30 August. The World Water Week in Stockholm is an annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and supported by the United Nations water programs.
Wednesday 28 August
“Big data for all”, can it help improve agricultural productivity?
ICRISAT Governing Board 2019 PC meeting: District Level Database for India an...ICRISAT
ICRISAT has started collating meso level database (country, state and district level) since 1980’s, covering 7 states initially, later expanded to 10 states in 1990’s. Currently under a project jointly supported by Tata Cornell Institute on Nutrition and Agriculture (TCI) and ICRISAT (Since May 2018).
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) team met in Rome from May 25-28, 2015 to review progress towards current work plans, discuss model improvements and technical parameters, and consider possible contributions by the GFSF program to the CRP Phase II planning process. All 15 CGIAR Centers were represented at the meeting.
The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) team met in Rome from May 25-28, 2015 to review progress towards current work plans, discuss model improvements and technical parameters, and consider possible contributions by the GFSF program to the CRP Phase II planning process. All 15 CGIAR Centers were represented at the meeting.
The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) team met in Rome from May 25-28, 2015 to review progress towards current work plans, discuss model improvements and technical parameters, and consider possible contributions by the GFSF program to the CRP Phase II planning process. All 15 CGIAR Centers were represented at the meeting.
Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program enhances and uses a coordinated suite of biophysical and socioeconomic models to assess potential returns to investments in new agricultural technologies and policies. These models include IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), hydrology and water supply-demand models, and the DSSAT suite of process-based crop models.
The program also provides tools and trainings to scientists and policy makers to undertake similar assessments.
GFSF program is a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) program led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Political economy of agricultural policy processes in Africa with a focus on ...futureagricultures
Presentation by Colin Poulton at the event "The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa", September 2014.
http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/the-political-economy-of-agricultural-policy-processes-in-africa
Trait Mining, prediction of agricultural traits in plant genetic resources with ecological parameters. Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS). For the Vavilov seminars at the IPK Gatersleben 13th June 2007. Dag Endresen, Michael Mackay, Kenneth Street.
Articulo escrito por Hector Sánchez Villeda.
Hector Sánchez ha desarrollado tecnologías de la información para las ciencias biológicas por más de 20 años y actualmente es Fundador y Director de Desarrollo de IT de G2 Apps una empresa de innovación tecnológica basada en Querétaro, México.
G2 APPS se dedica a la implementación de LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems) utilizando un enfoque multidisciplinario que desde luego incluye un alto nivel de conocimientos en las ciencias de la vida para llevar a cabo una facil implementación.
Artículo escrito por el MC Hector Sánchez VIlleda acerca de su participación en el desarrollo, diseño e implementacion de un Sistema de Administración de la Información para Laboratorios en la Universidad de Missouri.
Hector Sánchez Villeda ha trabajado por más de 25 años en el desarrollo de TI para las ciencias biologicas y es fundador y Director de Desarrollo de IT en G2 Apps, una compañia de inovación tecnológica basada en la ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico
Agricultural Data Interest Group & Wheat Data Working Group of RDAVassilis Protonotarios
Presentation delivered during the "Engagement in RDA from Southern-Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Caucasus region" Workshop. 25/6/2015, Athens, Greece
Prototype germplasm data portal (2006)Dag Endresen
Prototype Germplasm Data Portal, predecessor for the ALIS-Global of the GIGA project. Presentation for the Nordic Gene Bank board meeting on 4th December 2006.
D4Science experience: VREs for increasing the sharing and collaboration in th...e-ROSA
Donatella Castelli's presentation at the eROSA Workshop “Towards Open Science in Agriculture & Food”, a side event to High Level conference on FOOD 2030, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (13/6/2018)
The goal of the SC2 Pilot is to demonstrate the ability of Big Data technologies to complement existing community-driven systems (e.g. VITIS for the Viticulture Research Community) with efficient large-scale back-end processing workflows.
Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in AgricultureLIBER Europe
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
A presentation on biometry covering issues such as the diversity of methodologies being served, its development as well as its integration with information technology.
A quick introduction to the CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) -- its history, network, research organisation, outputs and challenges. GCP is a virtual network of partnerships working on modern crop breeding for food security
The IMLS-funded project Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) has created a "Competency Index for Linked Data".
The Index provides a concise and readable map of concepts and skills related to the practices and technologies of Linked Data for the benefit of interested learners and their teachers.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) has developed a Catalogue of Metadata standards and tools aimed at researchers and those who support them. In its new version, the Metadata Standards Catalog will provide much greater detail about metadata standards and tools, and through its new API - it will be usable within other applications. It will also provide a platform for furthering the work of the RDA Metadata Interest Group, which is seeking to improve the interoperability of metadata in different standards by working towards semi-automatically generated converters.
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) calls for the contribution of non confidential information about the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) to the Global Information System (GLIS) to facilitate access to such information by any party interested. The foundation of GLIS is the accurate identification of the PGRFA to which the information is associated. After extensive research and consultation, DOIs have been selected as the Permanent Unique Identifier of choice for GLIS.
The webinar describes the challenges that the GLIS team of the ITPGRFA has faced as well as the benefits that the GLIS user community will receive by the adoption of DOIs.
Initially developed by FAO of the UN in the context of the NeOn project as a collaborative environment for the development of the AGROVOC thesaurus, later generalized to a SKOS-XLdevelopment platform in the context of a collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vergata, VocBench is now reaching its third incarnation.
VocBench 3 (or simply, VB3), is the new version of VocBench, funded by the European Commission ISA² programme, and with development managed by the Publications Office of the EU, under contract 10632 (Infeurope S.A.).
VB3 will offer a powerful editing environment, with facilities for collaborative management of OWL ontologies and SKOS/SKOS-XL thesauri. VB3 will surpass its predecessor with native support for OWL, SKOS and SKOS-XL, completely rewritten components for better User Interface, User Management, History Tracking and Validation&Publication Workflow.
Research activities rely on access and repeatability of results. Accurate identification of the subject of the research as well as of the techniques and methods used is critical to obtain reliable results.
The adoption of Permanent Unique Identifiers, and specifically Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)promotes access and reusability of data in modern research. The webinar begins with some basic concepts on Permanent Unique Identifiers. Next, DOIs are introduced describing how they are managed, how they can be obtained and how their features can be of benefit to researchers in a wide range of fields.
The FAIR principles have been introduced as a guideline for good scientific data stewardship. They have gained momentum at a management level and are now for example part of the project template for EU Horizon 2020 projects. This raises the question what research groups and projects can do to implement them. Hugo Besemer will introduce the ideas behind the FAIR principles.
By Ignasi Labastida is the Head of the Office the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Universitat de Barcelona
25 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
In 2006 the University of Barcelona launched the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge (ODK) in order to make visible its commitment with openness started in 2003 when it joined Creative Commons as its host institution in Spain. Currently the ODK is based in the library and during these ten years has been involved in many activities, events, project and trainings to foster openness in any academic level from education to research. In this webinar, Dr. Labastida will explain how they have been developing this work and how the community has reacted.
By Sander Janssen, Research Team Leader of Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics at Alterra, Wageningen UR,
12 April 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This presentation focus on the political context of open data publishing, methodological frameworks for estimating the impacts of open data and highlight the Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research as publication channel for open data sets. It will also build on personal reflections on publishing open data from Dr. Janssen’s own research career.
For more on the topic: http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/join-free-webinar-publishing-open-data-agricultural-research
By Jennifer Chapin, Programme Manager, AuthorAID at INASP.
1 March 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar will provide an overview of the AuthorAID website and programme of support, including the online courses in research writing, mentoring support and resources. The impact of the AuthorAID programme and the lessons learnt in low income countries will also be covered.
About Jennifer Chapin
Jennifer coordinates the communication of research at INASP, managing the AuthorAID programme to support the capacity of researchers in developing countries. Joining INASP in 2016, Jennifer spent the previous four years at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in London, a role which included developing research best practice and quality assurance, supporting the development of actuarial research with 300 researchers worldwide. Holding an MA in Education and International Development, she previously worked in education strategy for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and, since 2010, has also acted as director of a gender equality in education programme in Togo through a Canada-Togo partnership.
By Joy Paulson, the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University.
24 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, is a database that provides access to peer-reviewed, research journals in Agriculture and related-sciences without the need for internet connectivity. Currently TEEAL provides access to 450 research journals. Additionally, TEEAL also begun to provide access to non-journal research material that can be difficult to find and access. The first collection is research sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners and grantees.
TEEAL is delivered on a small-footprint computer that can be plugged into an institution’s local area network (LAN) or a stand-alone computer. When connected to an institution’s LAN, TEEAL is available across the institution to all members of the institutions community.
This webinar will introduce the TEEAL database, explore its collections, and demonstrate methods for browsing and effectively searching to identify the research the user needs. Eligibility for TEEAL and costs will also be discussed. There will be an opportunity for questions.
About Joy Paulson
Joy Paulson is the Director of the TEEAL Project and the International Projects Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University. She has been the Director of TEEAL for over 5 years, and she has taught international workshops on using TEEAL and other electronic resources, information literacy, scientific writing, and digital project management Africa and South Asia. Her previous work focused on developing digital library collections.
By by Kristin Kolshus, Information Management Specialist at FAO of the United Nations.
22 February 2017- 14:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of the AGORA programme for interested institutions in eligible countries. AGORA is one of the four Research4Life programmes. The webinar will present AGORA, a programme to provide free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. The webinar will focus on the eligibility, the registration, terms of use, and the types of resources covered.
About Kristin Kolshus
Kristin Kolshus is an Information Management Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Africa. She focuses on capacity development on access to scientific information, information management, and knowledge sharing, especially through AGORA and Research4Life.
By Thembani Malapela, Knowledge and Information Management Officer at FAO of the United Nations.
21 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is one of the many bibliographic databases used for locating agricultural information online, others examples include PubAg, TEEAL and CAB Abstracts.
AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data it retrieves related content across online information systems by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities. Through AGRIS core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved thereby enriching the search results.
This webinar will present the AGRIS international initiative and partnership, looking at how AGRIS bibliographic data acts as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the fundamentals of AGRIS, give an overview of the AGRIS interface, and show how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
About Thembani Malapela
Thembani Malapela works as Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Currently, he is responsible for AGRIS user support and communications and in evaluating various ways of improving the AGRIS user experience.
By Chenjerai Mabhiza, Head of User Services at the University of Namibia
17 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
By Thomas Ingraham, Publishing Editor at F1000Research
15 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
This webinar covers three emerging themes in life science publishing, which will begin to influence the way in which the agricultural researchers share and access knowledge:
Faster dissemination: Publishing scientific articles is often a lengthy process, taking several months or even years from first submission. This prevents the research community and others from being able to act on new knowledge quickly, which is especially serious in emergency situations such as emerging infectious diseases. This webinar will cover two ways of tackling publication delays: preprint servers and post-publication peer review platforms.
Increased access & transparency: Open Access has helped remove access barriers to a vast body of scientific knowledge. Other important research outputs that have historically been difficult to access are starting to be published more frequently such as replications, data, code and referee reports.
Assessment of research: Researches are assessed by their publication record. Journal title and Impact Factor tend to be the default assessment criteria, though there is growing awareness of the disadvantages of these approaches, and alternative measures of quality and impact are gaining ground.
About Thomas Ingraham:
Tom is the Publishing Editor at F1000Research and has been involved with the publisher’s open science and editorial development since its inception in 2012. He manages several channels published on F1000Research, including those focussing on agriculture, and is the lead on several of the publisher’s open data-orientated projects.
Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This is especially important in agriculture and nutrition research where quick, unrestricted access to knowledge is crucial to solving urgent issues including food security, biodiversity conservation, and emerging infectious diseases in crops and animals.
This webinar will cover how the novel approaches taken by the publication venue Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development (OKAD) and the publishing platform it is hosted on, F1000Research, are addressing these issues. OKAD publishes academic articles, posters and slide presentations involving open knowledge projects within all areas of agriculture, nutrition and agro-biodiversity. By using F1000Research’s post-publication peer review platform, OKAD ensures rapid access to research within days of submission. Experts are invited to peer review upon publication, and their signed peer review reports are published alongside the article. All articles and any associated data and code are made publically available.
AGRIS is the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology. It is supported by a large community of data providers, partners and users. AGRIS is a database that aggregates bibliographic data, and through this core data, related content across online information systems is retrieved by taking advantage of Semantic Web capabilities.
This webinar will present AGRIS international initiative and partnership in the usage of AGRIS bibliographic data as a gateway to enable researchers and policy makers to retrieve agricultural and scientific information. The end-user based webinar will explain the basic fundamentals of AGRIS, overview the AGRIS interface, and how users can initiate their searches using both the simple and advanced search functionalities.
Le programme Research4Life est un partenariat public-privé entre l’OMS, la FAO, le PNUE, l’OMPI, les Universités Cornell et Yale, des partenaires technologiques et plus de 200 éditeurs scientifiques représentés par l’Association internationale des éditeurs de la STM.
Le programme fournit aux pays à revenu plus faible et moyen, un accès gratuit ou à faible coût aux plus grandes collections de publications en ligne. Les bibliothèques admissibles au programme bénéficient de plus de 68 000 revues scientifiques internationales, livres et bases de données dans les domaines de la santé, de l’agriculture, de l’environnement et de la technologie.
L’objectif de Research4Life est de réduire l’écart des connaissances entre les pays industrialisés et les pays en développement.
Ce webinaire présente comment Research4Life fonctionne, comment le programme est structuré et qui peut se joindre au partenariat. Il donnera un aperçu de l’accès aux quatre programmes Hinari, AGORA, OARE et ARDI qui composent Research4Life.
De plus, il présentera brièvement la formation gratuite disponible sur les sites web sur les compétences des auteurs, les outils de gestion de référence mais aussi fournira des exemples de comment Research4Life fait la différence pour de nombreux établissements de recherche aujourd’hui.
With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF publishing tools, those tools are not very well suited for SKOS data, because they cannot support term-based searching and lookup.
This webinar presents Skosmos, an open source web-based SKOS vocabulary browser that uses a SPARQL endpoint as its backend. It can be used by e.g. libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto, operated by the National Library of Finland, is built using Skosmos.
Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has been developed by analyzing the results of repeated usability tests. All of the SKOS data is made available as Linked Data. A developer-friendly REST API is also available providing access for using vocabularies in other applications such as annotation systems.
We will describe what kind of infrastructure is necessary for Skosmos and how to set it up for your own SKOS data. We will also present examples where Skosmos is being used around the world.
Research4Life es una colaboración pública-privada de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la FAO, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), las bibliotecas de las universidades de Cornell y Yale, la Asociación Internacional STM y más de 200 editoriales internacionales. Brinda acceso libre o de bajo costo a contenido en línea revisado por pares académicos y profesionales en países en vías de desarrollo.
Instituciones elegibles y sus empleados y estudiantes tienes derecho a acceder a hasta 68,000 recursos de las principales revistas, bases de datos y del Internet en los ámbitos de la agricultura, las ciencias biológicas, medio ambientales y sociales relacionadas.
La meta de Research4Life es empoderar a instituciones científicas es países con bajos y medios ingresos y reducir las brechas en el conocimiento.
Este seminario mostrará el funcionamiento y la construcción de Research4Life, así como también quién puede participar en la colaboración. Presentará los cuatro programas de Research4Life: Hinari, AGORA, OARE y ARDI, que brindan acceso a los ámbitos mencionados. Además ofrecerá un resumen sobre capacitación proporcionada en la página web sobre competencias de la autoría, herramientas de la gestión de referencias etc. y proporcionará ejemplos de cómo Research4Life hace una diferencia para muchas instituciones científicas.
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and over 200 international scientific publishers. It provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Eligible libraries and their users benefit from online access to up to 68,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases in the areas of health, agriculture, environment and technology.
The overall goal of Research4Life is to empower research institutions in developing countries and to reduce knowledge gaps.
This webinar will illustrate how Research4Life works, how it is constructed and who can join the partnership. It will briefly present the four Research4Life programs Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI that provide access to the aforementioned research areas. Furthermore it will give an overview about free training provided on the website about authorship skills reference management tools etc. and provide examples of how Research4Life could make a difference for many research institutions already.
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The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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OGC Standard for the Interoperability of Agricultural Models: Data and Processes at the Same Level, by Didier Leibovici
1. 1
OGC standard for the Interoperability of
agriculture models: data and processes at
the same level
Didier G. Leibovici, Suchith Anand,
Mike Jackson
University of Nottingham, UK
Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD)
Pre-Meeting
21st to 22nd September 2015 INRA, Paris (France)
3. 3
from prototyping to operational
a multidisciplinary project between
Crop sciences / Plant Sciences
/Agronomy &
Geospatial Sciences
• genetic & phenotypic & trait information
• agricultural & environmental information
• geospatial architecture & data & models management
GRASP
Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests
“Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests
with integrated workflow modelling to support Global Food
Security (GRASP-GFS)” (2013)
4. Generic workflow of the GRASP project
use and reuse of available information
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10. OS OS & Workflow management
• Open standard
BPMN 2.0, (metamodel)
ISO 19115 (-1) / ISO19157 (metadata quality see also meta-
propagation), ISO19119
Geoprocessing
OGC WPS
Datasets
OGC WFS /WCS /SOS
• Open Source
- JBPM / Camunda / together Shark
- pyWPS or WPS4R (52N)
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Workflow
Taverna (uses SCUFL2 not BPMN)
11. Quality & error propagation
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Where really
Datasets & GeoProcessing
are on equal footing!
12. Some conclusions/ hopes!
• Workflow Research Environment
• Data Quality & Processing Quality
DQ PQ sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
e.g., MetaPUnT
• Data and Process discovery (metadata)
ISO 19115-1 / CSW / metadata brokers
• Workflow editor vs Workflow Composition
and Workflow Analytical tools … semantic needed
• Communities of model users&modellers
• H2020 EINFRA-9 …
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Editor's Notes
In order to facilitate research and sharing of modelling approach in the Agriculture domain for food security, possible interoperability settings for data and processes will be presented. This is more a best practice than something new as the standards already exist. Furthermore, analysing models and sub-models from their representations within a workflow encoding standard (graphical and XML: BPMN2.0) allow communities to share and combine their models into more complex modelling. These two aspect put data and processes at the same level within dedicated infrastructures. We will present the general GRASP-WRE principle (Geospatial Resources for Agriculture Species and Pests - Workflow Research Environment) and its genesis at the University of Nottingham.
OGC standards for data and processes
OMG standards (the BPMN) to combine these
authoring models / composing models / sharing models (as WPS and as BPMN part of the metadata DescribeProcess)
Tool to present conceptual models but also to run them and do analytical things such as analysing error propagation global local visualising data (final outputs but also along the chains of processes
Papers on meta-rpopagation of uncertainty
Cageo BPMN chaning of WPS i.e. quality infrmation is needed for both data and processes
This was syntactic interoperability mostly but this gives the step for semantic interoperability or for king the most of semantic intereoprebility
i.e. when composing the workflow
Models may be made to operate at a given scale but they have an impact at different scales and upscaling /extrapolation or dowscaling may be required/desired at some point!
Workflow as a computational model but also as set and order of tasks to achieve