The agINFRA project (http://www.aginfra.eu) lasted from the October 2011 to February 2015. This presentation shows the vision for after the end of the project

1. the vision for the
future
so after the FP7 project… what?
agINFRA has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 283770

2. • a data infrastructure
• to support agricultural scientific
communities
• to promote open data sharing
• to cultivate and enhance trust in
agricultural science communities
what did our project promise

3. “We will promote research for food and
agriculture, including research to adapt to, and
mitigate climate change, and access to research
results and technologies at national, regional
and international levels.
We will reinvigorate national research systems and
will share information and best practices.
We will improve access to knowledge”
Heads of State and Government, World Summit on Food Security, Rome, November 2009
our mandate

4. it’s March 2015: the agINFRA
FP7 project has just ended…

5. …on April 2015: aginfra.eu is
launched!

6. welcome aginfra.eu
• the European hub for data-powered research
on agriculture, food and the environment
a) a research data sharing help desk & service point
for H2020 projects in our thematic areas
b) a big (research) data machine & stack of
technologies
c) an ecosystem for research data scientists,
developers, startups

7. (a) H2020 research data service point
• aiming towards a community-specific reference
point for research & academic institutions carrying
out work with funding from the H2020 framework
programme
– domain-specific support on implementation of EC’s (and
other donors) Open Access requirements, Data
Management Plans, etc.
– help publishing & linking research outcomes from H2020
projects (esp. publications, research data sets)
– serve as a hub for disseminating research outcomes to
EU and global e-infrastructures (i.e. OpenAIRE, AGRIS)

8. cover all other relevant open policies
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9. service to be user-friendly

10. (b) big research data machine
• aiming to provide the distributed technology stack
& e-infrastructure for big data acquisition,
aggregation, processing, and visualisation
– developers, data scientists, software companies may use
customised big data technology stack & hosted software
components through open APIs
– e-infrastructure providers collaborate & share cloud/grid
resources for agricultural research experimentation &
applications

11. scale up into open & federated registries
Meta-registry platform federating all existing registries & making information
discoverable
Registries of data
sources
Federated data registry
Federated information providers
Registries of
bibliographic
collections
Federated pubs registry
Registries of software
apps/components
Federated software registry
…etc

12. challenge: putting this together
• a back end platform that…
– …will catalog all relevant information entities
– …will make all information machine readable and
discoverable
– …will allow information providers express how, with
whom, under which license and for which purposes they
share this info
– …will help people utilize the collective power of
information to solve societal challenges, better
– …will coordinate, consolidate and harmonize data &
technology sharing among agri-food sectors and user
communities

13. new aginfra.eu big data platform

14. new aginfra.eu e-infrastructure

15. what the evolved platform will do
• set up an open, scalable & sophisticated data aggregation
architecture
• put in place automated registry data acquisition workflows
to periodically discover & update registry information
– e.g. from national or community registries
• deploy various mechanisms to expose & present
information globally to the community
– for machines: through appropriate APIs (e.g. RESTful, SPARQL, …)
– for people: through existing demonstrators that may be powered
by aginfra.eu

16. (c) a data-powered ecosystem
• aiming to provide a hub for to support the
European communities of data scientists, software
companies, tech startups working with clients in the
agri-food sector
– global public, private & societal stakeholders presenting
their data-related problems
– EU technology developers present & demonstrate their
apps & systems to the global stakeholders

17. Agro/food industry
Agro data providers
(FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,
DFID, etc)
Agro/food research &
academia
Agricultural software
app/tool/service
companies
Agricultural
data
scientists
Data science
community
17
Tech/IT
industry &
start ups
Agricultural
data
aggregators
an ecosystem that could look like this

18. engagement, awareness, support

19. connect to & facilitate business initiatives
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20. …so it is all about information
discovery & sharing