This document outlines a vision for a pan-European e-infrastructure for agri-food research. It describes the current fragmented state of individual research organizations and isolated data silos. The vision is to build common semantic specifications and standards to incorporate physical infrastructure and make cross-community services available via semantically enriched descriptions. This would automate the integration of existing and new services to optimize resource sharing and data integration across communities. The priorities are establishing standards and semantics, designing common horizontal services, and specifying community-specific services to work towards the goal of mission-driven research enabled by a unified e-infrastructure.

1. Technical Implementation Agenda for a
pan-European scientific e-infrastructure in Agri-Food

2. PRESENTATION
CHAPTERS
THE PAST
THE PRESENT
THE VISION
TOWARDS REALIZING THE VISION
TOWARDS MISSION-DRIVEN RESEARCH
THE FUTURE

3. THE
PAST

4. WHAT WERE THINGS LIKE?
EACH ORGANIZATION CONDUCTED ITS RESEARCH IN ITS OWN INFRASTRUCTURE (AND OFTEN
PREMISES)
ISOLATED RESEARCH AND DATA SILOS
INFORMATION AND DATA EXCHANGE WAS INDIRECT (PUBLICATIONS, PROVISION OF DATA AND
MODELS UPON REQUEST, MANUAL SEARCHES)

5. THE PAST
SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
ORGANIZATION
DEDICATED /
AD-HOC
SERVICES
PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE

6. THE
PRESENT

7. WHAT ARE THINGS LIKE NOW?
A SET OF BASIC, CROSS-COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE HORIZONTALLY USED BY ALL STAKEHOLDERS
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (COMPUTATIONAL AND STORAGE RESOURCES) ARE SHARED AND
ACCESSIBLE TO MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS
MORE INTRICATE OPERATIONS, THOUGH COMMON, ARE SERVED BY DISJOINT SERVICES, EVEN
WITHIN THE SAME COMMUNITIES
INTEGRATION AND SHARING OF SUCH SERVICES IS PERFORMED AT A GENERIC LEVEL, LEAVING
MORE COMPLEX FUNCTIONALITY OUTSIDE THE SHARED BASEGROUND

8. THE PRESENT
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
AUTHENITCATION
& AUTHORIZATION
MINING
SERVICE #1
MINING
SERVICE #2
LINKING
SERVICE #1
SEMANTIC
ENRICHMENT
SERVICE #1
MINING
SERVICE #3
DATA
QUALITY
SERVICE #1
OPTIMIZATION
SERVICE #1
ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING
STORAGE
MANAGEMENT
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES

9. COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
COMMUNITY - SPECIFIC SERVICES
USING COMMON TECHNOLOGIES
GENERIC COLLABORATIVE SPACES
INTEGRATING SUBSETS OF SERVICES
AUTHENITCATION
& AUTHORIZATION ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING STORAGE MANAGEMENT
STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE

10. THE
FUTURE

11. WHAT WILL THINGS BECOME LIKE?
EXTEND THE SET OF HORIZONTAL SERVICES TO INCLUDE TECHNOLOGIES ALREADY MATURE IN
THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT CAN BE USED WITHIN DIFFERENT DOMAINS
OPTIMIZE THE USAGE OF SHARED PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EACH COMMUNITY /
COMPUTATIONAL TASK
PROVIDE THE MEANS TO EASILY CUSTOMIZE AND CONFIGURE THE HORIZONTAL SERVICES TO
FULLY ACCOMMODATE THE NEEDS OF A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY
SEAMLESSLY INCORPORATE NEW SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO THE BIG PICTURE

12. THE FUTURE
THE FARM
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
THE LAB
COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC
CONFIGURATIONS
RESEARCH FACILITIES & ESFRI
MINING
SEMANTIC
ENRICHMENT
OPTIMIZATION LINKING
QUALITY CONTROL
AUTHENTICATION &
AUTHORIZATION
ANNOTATION DISCOVERY SHARING
STORAGE
MANAGEMENT
CLOUD COMPUTING /
CONTAINER DEPLOYMENT / HPC
ONLINE STORAGE / LONG-TERM STORAGE /
DATA TRANSFER

13. THE
VISION

14. WHAT IS OUR VISION FOR THINGS TO BECOME LIKE?
BUILD AND MANAGE AT LARGE-SCALE COMMON SEMANTIC SPECIFICATIONS FOR DATA AND
SERVICES, USING WIDELY AGREED STANDARDS AND FORMATS
INCORPORATE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER A FEDERATION LAYER, OPTIMIZING THEIR
USAGE AND SHARING
MAKE CROSS-COMMUNITY SERVICES AVAILABLE VIA SEMANTICALLY ENRICHED DESCRIPTIONS
AND ALLOWING THE AUTOMATION OF THE INTERFACING PROCESS
AUTOMATE THE INCORPORATION OF EXISTING / NEW SERVICES BY ESTABLISHING API FACTORIES
ENSURING THEIR INTEROPERABILITY VIA THE USAGE OF THE COMMON SEMANTICS AND
SPECIFICATIONS

15. OUR VISION
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC SERVICES
SERVICE #1 SERVICE #2
API FACTORY
API API
ABSTRACTION LAYER
HORIZONTAL SERVICES
FEDERATION LAYER
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SPECIFICATIONLAYER

16. PRIORITIES & TIME PLAN TOWARDS THE VISION
STANDARDS & SEMANTICS
HORIZONTAL SERVICES ABSTRACTION
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC SERVICES SPECIFICATION
ABSTRACTION LAYER DESIGN
API FACTORY DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT & PILOT DEMONSTRATION
COMMUNITY ASPECTS: TRAINING & COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNANCE & BUSINESS MODELS
SERVICEINTEGRATION

17. ACTIVATING GOVERNING BODIES FOR IDENTIFYING NEEDS AND SETTING GOALS AND
PRIORITIES
ESTABLISH MISSION CONTROL FRAMEWORKS BY:
EMPLOYING TASK FORCES FOR THE SPECIFICATION OF SEMANTICS AND STANDARDS,
COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, ASSETS TO BE MOBILIZED
DESIGNING AND EXECUTING SYSTEMATIC TRAINING AND AWARENESS EVENTS FOR THE
USAGE AND BENEFITS OF THE NEW PARADIGM
TOWARDS MISSION DRIVEN RESEARCH

18. Dr. Pythagoras Karampiperis
Agroknow