Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop agINFRA Open data infrastructures for research in agriculture 30th of May, 2013, Budapest, Hungary Babis Thanopoulos Agro-Know Technologies

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA agINFRA in a few sentences Based on a linked open data architecture harmonizing semantics and ontologies. Aggregating data of existing systems and taking advantage of advanced Grid & Cloud services and infrastructure. Devised for scalability and maximum interoperability by adapting existing widely used components. Fostering diverse communities of heterogeneous providers and users. Providing researcher-centric services.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Why agINFRA?

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Why sharing data? (1/2) Sharing research data is “an intrincate and difficult problem” (Borgman, 2011, JASIST) Not much data sharing may be taking place - with exceptions in some domains. Sharing takes different forms, from private data exchange to posting on-line, and including journal supplementary materials. There are few standards for giving shared data the required computational semantics to build automated tools.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Why sharing data? (2/2) … however reusing data is at the core of the principles of the scientific method. … and a major concern for scientists and policy makers.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Agricultural research (+) content publications, theses, reports, other grey literature educational material and content, courseware primary data, such as measurements & observations o Structured (e.g. datasets as tables) / digitized (e.g. images) secondary data, such as processed elaborations o e.g. dendrograms, pie charts provenance information, incl. authors, their organizations and projects experimental protocols & methods social data, tags, ratings, etc.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA stats gene banks gis data blogs, journals open archives raw data technologies learning objects ……….. educators’ view

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA stats gene banks gis data blogs, journals open archives raw data technologies learning objects ……….. researchers’ view

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA stats gene banks gis data blogs, journals open archives raw data technologies learning objects ……….. practioners’ view

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA is great …but its not the answer

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA we create data silos

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA stats gene banks gis data blogs, journals open archives raw data technologies learning objects ……….. we need data pools

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Publisher DateCatalog SubjectIDAuthorTitle actually share metadata

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA stats gene banks gis data blogs, journals open archives raw data technologies learning objects ………..

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA.. agINFRA empowered version of tools

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA OMEKA repository tool (1/3) An agricultural learning repository tool Based on the open-source Omeka Web content, collections and digital archives management system ( Supports individuals and organisations to create their own collection(s) of educational material

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA OMEKA repository tool (2/3) Teachers, trainers, tutors,.. Hosting, managing and online storage of their resources no technical background required Publish and share their resources online No additional funding required No technical support required Organic.Edunet, GLN Creation of digital repositories Exposition of their content to the network Individual content developers Educational institutions Aggregators

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA OMEKA repository tool (3/3) agINFRA empowered version Current version (for Administrator)

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Why a data infrastructure? Enable relating data and combining and contrasting them in novel ways. Enable scalable processing on research data. Provide easy to adopt and deploy services. Support a data-centric, integrated view of research. Give a coherent support to a variety of research objects (Bechhofer et al., 2010).

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA agINFRA manifesto …

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA agINFRA values A | Open | Must be open and interlinked NOT subject to barriers, based on standard formats and avoiding building data silos due to lack of interrelatedness and ad-hoc APIs. B | Meaningful | Must be meaningful through explicit semantics C | Reliable | Must be reliable, traceable and accessible D | Actionable | Must be actionable trough services that empower research Reusing the semantics already provided in mature terminologies and ontologies that are exposed and interlinked through the Web. Any kind of research objects can be stored in the data infrastructure, and there are NO barriers to expressing relations between these objects to capture the context of research activities. Data is not useful without flexible and adaptable services that allow researchers to act on the data in the ways they need.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA agINFRA principles Infrastructure Be sustainable in the long term Allow for heterogeneous and rich kinds of data featuring semantics Expose everything as linked open data People Know and adapt to the needs of researchers Provide out-of-the-box, easy to adopt components Foster collaboration and sharing of data, via search but also casual discovery Services Use existing components supported by strong communities Create open services that can be easily composed Adapt services to research workflows

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA References Borgman, Christine L. (2011, submitted). The conundrum of sharing research data. Journal of the America Society for Information Science and Technology. Bechhofer, S., Ainsworth, J., Bhagat, J., Buchan, I., Couch, P., Cruickshank, D., Delderfield, M., Dunlop, I., Gamble, M., Goble, C., Michaelides, D., Missier, P., Owen, S., Newman, D., De Roure, D. and Sufi, S. (2010) Why Linked Data is Not Enough for Scientists. In: Sixth IEEE e–Science conference (e-Science 2010), December 2010, Brisbane, Australia.

Joint agINFRA & SCI-BUS workshop, 30/05/2013, Budapest, Hungary FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Thank you ! Dr. Babis Thanopoulos