Organic-AgriWare: An application for the Organic Agriculture community

Agro-Know at a glance and our role in Organic-AgriWare

Nikos Marianos, Giannis Stoitsis, Agro-Know

Agro-Know at a glance

An extraordinary company that captures, organizes and adds value to the rich information

available in agricultural and biodiversity sciences, in order to make it universally accessible, useful

and meaningful.

http://www.agroknow.gr

We build unique solutions that help people and organizations

address challenging societal and environmental challenges. We

help people discover the value in the data.

We are working with

Leading data interoperability work

• RDA, Research Data Alliance: Agricultural Data Interoperability

Interest Group (IG) & Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group

• ARIADNE Foundation: Creating a standards-based technology

infrastructure that allows the publication and management of digital

learning resources in an open and scalable way

• Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS): Initiative of

the Food & Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), supports

standardsfor open access and open data in the agricultural domain.

• Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange (GLOBE): A one-stop-

shop for learning resource broker organizations, each of them managing

and/or federating one or more learning object repositories.

AK is an active contributor in European and international standardization initiatives in relation to the agricultural data representation and storage, including:

Member of strategic “open” networks

• GFSP, Global Food Safety Partnership: Database Subgroup,

Knowledge & Learning Systems Group

• CIARD: a global movement dedicated to open agricultural

knowledge

• GODAN: Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition:

making agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available,

accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide

• Bouchout

Declaration for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management

: making digital data about our biodiversity openly available

Partner in >15 EU projects since 2008 • OpenMinTeD: Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data (2015 -

2018)– EU, $6M, 16 partners (incl. ARC, INRA); requirements elicitation

coordinator, responsible for agri-food community engagement, e-services development & evaluation

• agINFRA: a data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities (2011 - 2015)

– EU, $5.2M, 12 partners (incl. FAO); tech coordinator, evaluation, sustainability

– in G8 Open Data in Agriculture Action Plan for Europe• SemaGrow: Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time

performance of global agricultural data infrastructures (2012 - today)– EU, $3.1M, 8 partners (incl. FAO, WUR); tech coordinator,

evaluation, sustainability– in G8 Open Data in Agriculture Action Plan for Europe

Access the complete list of our projects.

The Organic-AgriWare project

The Consortium

www.agroknow.gr www.icrofs.org

www.seges.dk

Agricultural Problem Addressed

• Organic farmers need practical information for short and long term

planning for their farms

• Advisors need scientific information to help them

• Scientific research data/ publications and other useful information is

dispersed at different online and off-line locations/media

• Difficult to

– access the already acquired knowledge by the scientific

community

– collect the necessary context-related information and put it into

the context of their challenges.

The Organic-AgriWare Solution

• Online service that will provide advisors and farmers with context-

based access to organic community knowledge

– Powered by Agro-Know Stem (www.akstem.com)

• Develop an open knowledge hub for the community of organic

agriculture research, based on Organic Eprints (www.orgprints.org),

an international open access archive for papers and projects in

organic food & farming hosted by ICROFS (www.icrofs.org).

• Combine the archive’s information with other useful resources for

the user, such as location-related information, open data in

economics, weather data, on-the-field organic real time data, etc

• Pilot trials with the community of the Danish Agricultural Advisory

Service (SEGES, www.vfl.dk)

Agro-Know Stem Powered Hubs

What is a knowledge hub

• aggregate information from relevant

source

– manual index

– harvesting

• share and discovery of several data

types

– people, organizations, projects

and events

– biblio

– scientific data (primary and

secondary)

– images and videos

– research protocols

• use of a taxonomy

– as a backbone for knowledge

sharing

– aligned with reference ontology

i.e. AGROVOC

• open APIs to allow re-use of

information

– development of widgets

– development of apps (web and

mobile)

Agro-Know stem allows the set up of knowledge hubs for agricultural and food research

Stem powered knowledge hubs: land

Stem powered knowledge hubs: land

Stem powered knowledge hubs: land

Agro-Know stem within Organic-AgriWare

stem powered knowledge hub for organic agriculture

stem powered knowledge hub for organic agriculture

Extend content coverage

stem powered knowledge hub for organic agriculture

Support local and regional communities

stem powered knowledge hub for organic agriculture

Build Organic eprints powered microsites at associations’ site

Powered by

stem powered knowledge hubs for organic agriculture

Power associations’ sites with Organic eprints content

Use of FIWARE (1/2)

• Use of FI cloud

• Complex event processing

– only if complex data fusion and processing will be

validated as a problem e.g. data collected on the field

combined with weather data to extract a conclusion

about the yield

• Connect to FISPACE

– publish Organic AgriWare app info

– get info for B2B arrangements

Use of FISPACE (2/2)

Questions?