The document discusses a workshop focused on creating a data discovery demonstrator for the wheat research community, led by Agro-Know and held on June 29, 2015, in Paris. Key objectives include mapping institutions, researchers, and data sources, understanding user and system requirements, and validating the functionalities of the wheat demonstrator. It emphasizes the importance of collaborative efforts in agricultural research and open data accessibility.

1. WDI Working Group Workshop
Data discovery demonstrator for the wheat
research community
Babis Thanopoulos, Agro-Know
29/06/2015, Paris, France

2. background

3. An extraordinary company that captures, organizes
and adds value to the rich information available in
agricultural and biodiversity sciences, in order to
make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful.
http://www.agroknow.gr

4. indicative partners & clients
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD)
• World Bank Group
• UK’s Dept for International Development (DFID)
• Michigan State University (MSU)
• Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
• French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA)
• International Centre for Research in Organic Food
Systems (ICROFS)

5. advocates of open
• CIARD.net: a global movement dedicated to
open agricultural knowledge
• Global Open Data for Agriculture and
Nutrition (GODAN): make agricultural and
nutritionally relevant data available,
accessible, and usable for unrestricted use
worldwide

6. making different systems work together
• Agricultural Interoperability Interest Group
(IG), Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Knowledge & Learning Systems Group, Global
Food Safety Partnership (GFSP)

7. contribution of Agro-Know to WDI
• map the institutions & researchers, research
projects and data sources of the network
• populate the demonstrator with sample data
• set up a wheat data information discovery micro
site within the Wheat initiative website

8. MAP THE KEY ACTORS OF THE
WHEAT INITIATIVE NETWORK

9. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

10. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

11. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
example for food safety sector

12. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
example for food safety sector
example for AGRIS

13. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

14. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
example of collection of users’
requirements

15. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

16. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
example of collection of content
requirements

17. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

18. mapping the network
• understand & depict the wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the Wheat demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
Preferred system requirements, in terms of …
interface
services
Search & results presentations
content
Multi-linguality
accessibility
example of collection of system requirements

19. mapping the network
• understand & depict the Wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the WDI demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities

20. mapping the network
• understand & depict the Wheat research
community
• identify the user requirements
– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research
community?”
• identify the content requirements
– “What information are of the interest of the wheat
community?”
• identify the system requirements
– “Which key services & functionalities should be
included in the WDI demonstrator?”
• map the user & data requirements to the system
requirements and validate the Wheat
demonstrator functionalities
Wireframe example

21. EXAMPLE FROM FAO AGRIS

22. current service
• collects and manages agricultural
and other relevant information
that have been produced or
published
• provides information services on
both published & unpublished
literature
• promotes agricultural information
utilization
• carries out research on
agricultural information
development
http://agris.fao.org

26. POPULATE THE DEMONSTRATOR
WITH SAMPLE DATA

27. http://agris.fao.org
http://ring.ciard.net
http://www.agrifeeds.org
http://repository.cimmyt.org
http://www.agrivivo.net
http://institut.inra.fr/
an example of
Wheat demonstrator

28. WHEAT DISCOVERY MICRO SITE WITHIN
THE WHEAT INITIATIVE WEBSITE

29. REPOSITORY

30. REPOSITORY

31. REPOSITORY

32. thank you!
cthanopoulos@agroknow.gr
http://www.agroknow.gr