Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in Agriculture
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The document outlines the efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in enhancing data exchange and interoperability in agriculture. Key initiatives include the formation of the International Data Alliance interest group on agricultural data, multiple working groups focused on various agricultural data challenges, and the development of a semantic framework to improve data use and sharing. The document highlights ongoing efforts to gather community-driven requirements and create actionable recommendations for agricultural data interoperability.
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- 1. Enabling the exchange and use of data in agriculture Imma Subirats Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructure Workshop – July 5, 2017 Liber Annual Conference, Patras (Greece)
- 2. Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC) Responsible for providing corporate strategic advice and developing the tools and methodologies and long-term vision that will allow FAO to proactively engage in partnerships, advocate its messages and develop capacities in all areas comprised in the Organization’s five Strategic Objectives
- 4. F(indable) - A(ccessible) – R(e-usable) • Predominantly institutional policies, using disciplinary or multidisciplinary repositories • Specialized networks bring data together, like • Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) (Crop growth models) • Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas (GYGA) • Use of IDs • International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (TPGRFA)
- 5. I(nteroperable) Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Formed in 2013, IGAD has grown in community strength to over 150 members, becoming one of the RDA’s most prominent Thematic Groups https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/agriculture-data-interest-group-igad.html
- 6. IGAD/RDA Activities Multi-faceted approach, splintering into specific Working Groups (WG) each with their own tangible goals • Wheat Data Interoperability WG • Rice Data Interoperability WG • Agrisemantics WG • Soil Data WG • Ongoing discussions to start WGs on On-farm data sharing, Capacity development, Climate/Weather Data, Metrics and indicators in agricultural science Next Meeting Montreal 17 to 18 September 2017
- 7. Wheat Data Interoperability WG 7
- 9. AgriSemantics WG The goal is to gather community-based requirements and use cases for an infrastructure that supports appropriate use of semantics for data interoperability, with special focus on agriculture. The outputs of the WG will be: • A report on semantics landscape for agricultural data • A set of use cases and requirements • A document on recommendations for the future of semantics for agricultural data - software, functionalities, semantic assets to enhance data interoperability in agriculture.
- 10. On-Farm Data Sharing WG
- 12. I(nteroperable) Global map of existing vocabularies for the exchange of data in the field of food and agriculture. http://aims.fao.org/vest-registry?page=49
- 13. Discussion Thank you for your attention! Comments are welcome!
Editor's Notes
- #5: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is a major international collaborative effort to improve the state of agricultural simulation and to understand climate impacts on the agricultural sector at global and regional scales. GYGA is an international project requiring collaboration among agronomists with knowledge of production systems, soils, and climate governing crop performance in their countries. A standard protocol for assessing yield potential (Yp), water-limited yield potential (Yw), yield gaps (Yg) and water productivity (WP) is applied for all crops and countries based on best available data, robust crop simulation models, and a bottom-up approach to upscale results from location to region and country. Global Information System on PGRFA