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“Information

Infrastructure for

agriculture: lessons

learned in the agINFRA

project”

Infrastructure is a term heavily used when talking about information

systems in science. The understanding what infrastructure means

is not always commonly shared and most probably there is no

one single meaning. The experience of the agINFRA project is

that developing an infrastructure for information management

may deemphasize the programming of complex software

applications and the intervention on the “aggregation level”. It

shows that there is an enormous need to concentrate on the level

where data are produced and managed. It also showed that

investment in common semantics is a necessary part of

infrastructure and the effort for this is often undervalued. A third

pillar of infrastructure (after tools, and standards) capacity

development is often completely neglected and can lead to failure

of the entire undertaking.

Only the combination of technology, standards and capacity

development will assure that efficient and successful

infrastructure can be created

johannes keizerhttp://aims.fao.org

agINFRA evaluation

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d. Assessment

Excellent progress (the project

has fully achieved its objectives

and technical goals for the period

and has even exceeded

expectations).

……we wish to underline the

outstanding sustainability

plan proposed by the project

consortium. ..


Key statements

Agreeing on the meaning of

Infrastructure

Capacity development reigns

One software less, one Agreement

(vocabularies, methodologies) more

Riding the mainstream for having impact

Specialize (software, ontologies), but

only with a business model


What is Infrastructure?

- A new aggregated repository is

not!

- Wires (Grid,Cloud) and

processing tools are not

sufficient

- The bottle neck is at the data

provision side

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• CAAS Germplasm Data (CGRIS, China)

• CRA Soil Data (Italy)

You will find these data not even with GOOGLE!

The main problems

• Resistance to make the data open

• Undeclared idiosyncratic description of

data

2 Examples


Table (28) Field (880) Value Term (Alternative) InspireTerm (Preferred) InspireBroaderTerm

Soil_system WRB CH reference soil group (RSG) WRB Reference Soil Group (RSG) Soil Body

sottounita wrb_unità RG reference soil group (RSG) WRB Reference Soil Group (RSG) Derived Soil Profile

sottounita Localita_tipica Quarto Representative site name site name Derived Soil Profile

sottounita mpro_utile 135 potential root depth potential root depth Soil Derived Object Parameter Name

orizz_funzionali mph 8.1 mean soil pH (in water) pH value Soil Derived Object Parameter Name

orizz_funzionali mcarb_org 0.75 mean organic carbon content organic carbon content Soil Derived Object Parameter Name

analisi_routinarie phw 8.0 soil pH (in water) pH value Profile Element Parameter Name

analisi_routinarie azoto_totale total nitrogen content nitrogen content Profile Element Parameter Name

analisi_routinarie carbonio_org 0.60 organic carbon content organic carbon content Profile Element Parameter Name

Naming Classes

and Properties

Cleaning up SKOS

Using INSPIRE

Linsting all Classes

and Properties

expliciting complexity

(logical gerarchies)

Adding

Controlled lists1° approximation:

3 level SKOS

2° approximation

n level KOS

The semantic Problem

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The “political” problem

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…better not to write

it down……..


Registry of

Datasets and

APIs

Productivity Tools

Registry of

vocabularies

LOD Vocabularies

Information services

Infrastructure

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Registry of

Datasets and

APIs

Productivity Tools

Registry of

vocabularies

LOD Vocabularies

AGROVOC

Local KOSs

Controlled lists- Document types

- Data types

- File formats

(IANA +)

- Protocols

- Audiences

- Licenses

etc.

agINFRA RDF

vocabularies

agINFRA LOD KOSs

Bibliographic

Educational

Germplasm

Soil

Datasets

APIs

etc.


Infrastructure

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agINFRA 3rd Review Meeting, 27th of March

2015



Registry of

Datasets and

APIs

Productivity Tools

Registry of

vocabulariesVEST registry

LOD Vocabularies

AGROVOC

Local KOSs


- Data types

- File formats

(IANA +)

- Protocols

- Audiences

- Licenses

etc.

agINFRA RDF

vocabulariesagINFRA LOD

KOSs

Bibliographic

Educational

Germplasm

Soil

Datasets

APIs

etc.

agINFRA data

sources

agINFRA

collections

agINFRA APIs

Including:


Infrastructure

1

1


2015

harvested

registered



Registry of

Datasets and

APIs

Productivity Tools

Registry of

vocabulariesVEST registry

LOD Vocabularies

AGROVOC

Local KOSs


- Data types

- File formats

(IANA +)

- Protocols

- Audiences

- Licenses

etc.

agINFRA RDF

vocabularies

agINFRA LOD KOSs

Bibliographic

Educational

Germplasm

Soil

Datasets

APIs

etc.

agINFRA data

sources

agINFRA

collections

agINFRA APIs

Including:


Cloud / SaaS tools

Omeka,

AgriDrupal,

AgriOceanDSpac

e

VocBench

Infrastructure

1

2


2015

Public REST

APIsagHarvest,

agTransform,

agTagger

Grid jobsGrid workflows

agKEA, ag@RDF, agHarvest…

harvested

registered



Registry of

Datasets and

APIs

Productivity Tools

Registry of

vocabularies

and tools VEST registry

LOD Vocabularies

AGROVOC

Local KOSs


- Data types

- File formats

(IANA +)

- Protocols

- Audiences

- Licenses

etc.

agINFRA RDF

vocabulariesagINFRA LOD KOSs

Bibliographi

c

Educational

Germplasm

Soil

Datasets

APIs

etc.

agINFRA data

sources

agINFRA

collections

agINFRA APIs

Including:


Cloud / SaaS tools

Omeka, AgriDrupal,

AgriOceanDSpace

VocBench

Shared

URIs

Infrastructure

1

3


2015

Public REST

APIs

agHarvest,

agTransform,

agTagger

Grid jobsGrid workflows

agKEA, ag@RDF, agHarvest…



3 pillars of successful infrastructures

Technology for storage,

delivery and processing

Agreements on Standards

and Methodologies

Capacity development and

advocacy

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Exploitation (agris.fao.org)


Aligning with International Initiatives

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http://www.ciard.info/

http://www.godan.info/

https://rd-alliance.org/groups/agriculture-

data-interest-group-igad.html

Advocacy and awareness


http://aginfra.eu/

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