{Food Map

Adding Value to Re-Purposed Data

Adam Doan, University of Guelph@doanac

Food Research

Decentralized

20080731-US-NDK_DaveLisaWedding-112 by Andrew Ross is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Decentralized

Sandy River Farm by Sam Beebe is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Connections

Research

Research

Industry

Public

Practitioners

Use Cases

Jeff is an entrepreneur who owns greenhouses throughout Ontario. His business is suffering because of the short growing season.

Use Cases

Joanne is a researcher on Ontario’s wine industry. She has an interest in exploring how wineries can get more value from the byproducts of their production systems.

Use Cases

Raj is a reporter with the CBC. The popular media has raised concerns about Giant Ragweed and its impact on soybean production. Raj would like to contact an expert to ensure the public is better informed.

The Food Map

ImproveMicro-subsurface drip irrigation by U.S. Department of Agriculture is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Improve

• Standardization• Metadata• Syntax Encoding• Vocabulary Encoding

• Leverage overlapping data sources• Automatic project duplication detection• Address gaps

Augmenttractor_on_the_field by Pedro Fernandes is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Augment

• Integrate• LDAP• Researcher information system• Publication data

• Index, Categorize• Ontologies: FAO AGROVOC

Focusyellow_wheat_field by Pedro Fernandes is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Focus

• Highlight• Prominent projects

• Guide• Research themes• Resources• Institutional repository• Data repository• Media Guide

Facilitate'V' graft ... pear tree (rootstock: quince tree) 2 by ghadjikyriacou is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Facilitate

• Search• Facets, augmented by ontologies

• Browse• Researcher and research output network• Researcher involvement