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of the European Union under grant number 654142

Agro-Know, Project Management Director

agINFRA: EGI Federated Cloud services for the agri-food research

Nikolaos Marianos

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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

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Unorganized Content in local and remote sites

Widgets

Authoring services

Data Discovery Services

Analytics services

Data Platform

Ingestion Translation Publication

Harvesting BlossomCultivation

Organized and structured Content in local and remote

DBs

Educational

Bibliographic

Other

Enrichment

Aggregate data from diverse sources

Works with different type

of data

Prepare data for

meaningful services

Educational

Bibliographic

Data aggregation & sharing solutions

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Indicative partners & clients

• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)• International Fund for Agricultural Development

(IFAD)• World Bank Group• UK’s Dept for International Development (DFID)• Michigan State University (MSU)• Wageningen University & Research (WUR)• French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA)• International Centre for Research in Organic Food

Systems (ICROFS)

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Advocates of Open

• CIARD.net: a global movement dedicated to open agricultural knowledge

• Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN): make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide

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Making different systems work together

• Agricultural Interoperability Interest Group (IG), Research Data Alliance (RDA)

• Knowledge & Learning Systems WG, Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP)

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Large scale data-related projects

• agINFRA: a data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities (2011 - 2015)– 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 - 2015)– 8 partners (incl. FAO, WUR); tech, evaluation, sustainability– in G8 Open Data in Agriculture Action Plan for Europe

• OpenMinTeD: Open Mining Infrastructure for Text and Data (2015- 2018)– 15 partners (incl. UoA, EBI, INRA); tech+data, requirements &

evaluation

• Big Data Europe: Integrating Big Data, Software and Communities for Addressing Europe’s Societal Challenges (2015-2018)– 12 partners (incl. FAO); agri-food community & use cases

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Our Societal Challenge

www.big-data-europe.eu

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Topics of relevance in 2014-2015

www.big-data-europe.eu

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Current WP: “data” spelled out

15 avr. 2023 www.big-data-europe.eu

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Current WP: “data” behind words

15 avr. 2023 www.big-data-europe.eu

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H2020: Open Access to Research Data & publications

www.big-data-europe.eu

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Relevant other open policies

www.big-data-europe.eu

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H2020 agri-food requirements

www.big-data-europe.eu

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“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

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Welcome aginfra.eu

• The European hub for data-powered research on agriculture, food and the environmenta) 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

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(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)

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Cover all other relevant open policies

www.big-data-europe.eu

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Sustainable, user-friendly services

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(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

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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

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New aginfra.eu big data platform

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All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use research-oriented software apps/tools/services

Data Repositories

Grid & cloud infrastructure

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use

New aginfra.eu e-infrastructure

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Services for researchers

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Services for researchers

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Services for infrastructure providers

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Services for infrastructure providers

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