the vision for the

futureso after the FP7 project… what?

it’s March 2015: the agINFRAFP7 project has just ended…

• 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

“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

…on April 2015: aginfra.eu is about to be launched!

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

(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)

cover all other relevant open policies

30-mars-15 www.big-data-europe.eu

sustainable, user-friendly services

(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

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

new aginfra.eu big data platform

new aginfra.eu e-infrastructure

(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

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

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Tech/IT industry & start ups

Agricultural data

aggregators

an ecosystem that could look like this

engagement, awareness, support

connect to & facilitate business initiatives

30-mars-15 www.big-data-europe.eu

…so it is all about information discovery & sharing