Organic-AgriWare: An application for the Organic Agriculture community

Agro-Know at a glance and our role in the project

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 create and cultivate an ecosystem of innovative, data-powered businesses, scientists, educators and citizens.

✔We deliver data-powered consulting services and customisable product offerings to all agricultural & biodiversity stakeholders, using modular, interoperable, technology solutions, as well as, high quality data sources.

✔We embrace and aggregate all data sources, formats & types relevant to the agricultural & biodiversity sciences.

How do we succeed?

Indicative partners & clients

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

(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)

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 • 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

• Organic.Lingua: Demonstrating the potential of multilingual Web Portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education (2011-2014)

– EU, $2.4M, 11 partners (incl. INRA); tech+data coordinator, evaluation

• 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.

Widgets

Authoring services

Data Discovery Services

Analytics services

Data Aggregation

Ingestion Enrichment Publication

Harvesting BlossomCultivation

Organized and structured Content in local and remote DBs

Research data

Bibliographic

Other

Filtering

Aggregates data from diverse sources

Works with different type

of data

Prepares data for

meaningful services

Unorganized Content in local and remote DBs

Research data

Bibliographic

Other

Combining the power of experts with state of the art technologies

The Agro-Know Data Framework (1/3)

The Agro-Know Data Framework (2/3)

Taking advantage of big data technologies, data modeling standards and open APIs,

the AK Data Framework is an open and scalable system that aggregates heterogenous

data from various data sources and includes tools that may be used for the storage,

organisation, curation, enrichment, analysis, exposure and discovery of data.

AK Data Framework is being used to:

support FAO AGRIS bibliographic network

build the Organic.Edunet online service

build the Green Learning Network (GLN) data pool

build the Events data pool

The Agro-Know Data Framework (3/3)

Using our Data Framework we can help your organization in:

implementing an open data policy

improving the quality of your data

making your data interoperable

collecting and interlinking relevant data from external sources

setting up meaningful data powered services for your end users such as search

engines

Data Framework as a service:

A SaaS model is supported in case you would like to get such solution as a service and

to avoid the hosting and maintenance burden.

The Organic-AgriWare project

The Consortium

www.agroknow.gr

Collaborators

http://www.digigrow.com

http://www.icrofs.org www.vfl.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)

• Tailor made interface to 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 (DAAS, www.vfl.dk)

Our goal

• to develop an open knowledge hub for the community of

organic agriculture research

• to enable the developments of apps that will help the

community to share knowledge

• to enhance Οrganic eprints by integrated features that solve

real problems of the community

• to develop one app that will bring the scientific knowledge

closer to the work of farmers and advisors

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

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

Instances

stem powered knowledge hubs: land

stem powered knowledge hubs: land

stem powered knowledge hubs: land

stem powered knowledge hubs: water pathogens

stem powered knowledge hubs: water pathogens

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)

• location aware services

– use the Geoserver of FIWARE to have a map based

browsing of people, organizations and content (validate if

content browsing per country and specific location is

important)

• 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

• use FIWARE Labs for testing

Use of FISPACE (2/2)

• Connect to FISPACE

– publish Organic AgriWare app info

– get info for B2B arrangements

• weather data

– use the data from a DigiGrow set up

– weather forecast (based on the model that we will

develop in collaboration with DigiGrow)

– use of complex event processing

Questions?