1. + agINFRA - a data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities Brussels, hearing at 22-feb-2011 Miguel-Angel Sicilia, UAH Kostas Kastrantas, AgroKnow Johannes Keizer, FAO Antun Balaz, IPB

2. + The project at a glance A data infrastructure for agricultural scientific communities. Based on an open linked data architecture harmonizing semantics and ontologies. Aggregating data of existing systems and taking advantage of advanced Grid 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 as conceptualized in the VOA3R project and covering CERIF.

3. + Specific issues from the negotiation mandate (i) 1. Please explore a possible link with the project iMarine (under negotiation), since these projects could make use of the same technologies. Please also explore the possible extension of the project focus more into data and tools. 2. The consortium should include the IITK sub-contractor as a partner, given its role in the project. 3. The linked-data version of existing bibliographic data should be further improved, as it does not extend adequately into the domain of primary literature. 4. The GANTT chart has to be clarified in relation to the project management task. 5. The travel costs have to be reduced. At the same time, the resources for project management to the coordinating partner have to be increased reflecting the size and complexity of the proposal.

4. + Specific issues from the negotiation mandate (ii) 6. The consortium is requested to have a clear dissemination strategy and to actively participate in concertation activities. To this avail the following two pieces of text should be included in the appropriate sections of the Description of Work (DoW): […] 7. The DoW should mention that a proper acknowledgement of the source funding (the FP7 logo and the EU flag, EC /e-Infrastructures, etc.) will be done in all dissemination activities. 8. On communications, the coordinator should check the best practices provided in http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/participating/communication-best- practices_en.html. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/participating/communication-best- practices_en.html. 9. Before the start of the project, provide a Fact sheet with an overview of the project (…) and a 5 slides presentation, including logos. 10. The consortium is requested to define and implement indicators of success, both qualitative and quantitative, as well as thresholds to be attained during the lifetime of the project.

5. + (1) Link with iMarine & extension Contact already established – analysis of common technologies underway. “possible extension of the project focus more into data and tools.” - "tools” are addressed in: WP-R1: Data Management, Processing, Visualisation & Navigation, pp. 53-55, though called "components". "data” are addressed in: WP-R2 “Data Policies, Workflows & Integration”, pp. 57-58, in the perspective of cross-community data integration, using a Linked Data approach. The "data repositories" to be integrated ("Depending on the maturity of the technical solutions of the partners and their current adherence to agricultural metadata and semantics interoperabilitystandards,..." - are listed on pp. 49-50 [not all agINFRA partners]

6. + (2) IITK as a partner Contributions of IIT Kanpur AgroTagger (key component of agINFRA concept and entity Identifier) AgroPedia Indica – Data and Service Provider IITK already prepared for becoming a parntner. Preparing the LFV and registration in NEF

7. + (3) Linked data in agINFRA “The linked-data version of existing bibliographic data should be further improved, as it does not extend adequately into the domain of primary literature.” Primary literature addressed through institutional repositories – to be clarified in the DoW.

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9. + (4) Clarification of PM tasks “The GANTT chart has to be clarified in relation to the project management task.”

10. + (5) Travel budget reduction “The travel costs have to be reduced. At the same time, the resources for project management to the coordinating partner have to be increased reflecting the size and complexity of the proposal.” ---> comment on current budget and ask about amount of reduction….

11. agINFRA - LinkedOpenData AgINFRA Triplifier agInfraVocBench or gs External VOCs bibo dc skos foaf AgINFRA concept/entity identifier /tagger agINFRA Exposure Layer Social networking platforms Technology Databases Project Databases Data Repositories Directories of Experts and Institutions Science Blogs Websites LOR Scholarly Journals Open Archives XXX agINFRA concepts ASFA AGROVOC RiceOnt BioTech XXXXXX org s agINFRA entities projects expert s XXXXXX orgs networks agInfraComponents agINFRA- R.I.N.G. AGRIS AGROPEDIA OrgEduNet

12. + (10) Main success criteria for the service, and quantitative indicators to measure success Measurable increase in sharing and federation of agricultural data ~3M agricultural and 49,5M generic bibliographic entries ~2,6M items of scientific literature open access ~100K educational resources >5 raw data repositories (e.g. Germoplasm) Measurable involvement of users/communities in data management processes >20 pilot trials Over 75% user satisfaction levels >15 stakeholder events 11 data providers/networks >20 countries and >20 languages covered Measurable interoperability & harmonisation of metadata, semantics and ontologies >5 agricultural metadata standards in various languages harmonised >5 existing agricultural ontologies/thesauri interconnected and mapped