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Miguel-Angel Sicilia, UAH
Nikos Manouselis, AgroKnow
Johannes Keizer, FAO
Antun Balaz, IPB
agINFRA - a data infrastructure
to support agricultural scientific
communities
Brussels, hearing at 22-feb-2011
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The project at a glance
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A data infrastructure for agricultural scientific communities.
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Based on an open linked data architecture harmonizing
semantics and ontologies.
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Aggregating data of existing systems and taking advantage of
advanced Grid services and infrastructure.
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Devised for scalability and maximum interoperability by
adapting existing widely used components.
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Fostering diverse communities of heterogeneous providers and
users.
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Providing researcher-centric services as conceptualized in the
VOA3R project and covering CERIF.
+ From CIARD RING to agINFRA
Source: Pesce,
Maru & Keizer,
IAALD conference,
2010
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Integrated services
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CIARD RING – From an on-line index of services and projects to
an infrastructure for registering, managing and hosting data
services.
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AGRIS – From a large bibliographic index of publications to a
linked data Atlas of agricultural research/ers.
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AgroPedia – From an Indian agricultural Wiki to a collaborative,
semantic, dynamic aggregator of specialized information and
knowledge.
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AgLR-TF – From an index of agricultural learning repositories to
a federation infrastructure with advanced tools for aggregating
learning resources.
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Organic.Edunet – From an specialized gateway of learning
object repositories to a highly interactive and scalable
visualization and browsing service.
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Specific questions from the experts
1.
In JRA2, please explain in more detail how the data will be integrated.
2.
Please provide more specific information on the standards to be
considered.
3.
Please clarify the role of the IITK in relation to the contribution from the
FAO.
4.
Please describe which partner(s) provide the required skills and
experience on interoperability arrangements between databases.
5.
Please provide more details on the type of work being done by the subcontractors.
6.
Please summarise your main success criteria for the service to be
developed, and which quantitative indicators will you use to measure
success
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agINFRA - LinkedOpenData
agINFRA Exposure Layer
AGRIS
OrgEduNet
Technology
Databases
AgINFRA
concept/entity
identifier
/tagger
BioTech
External
VOCs
foaf
agINFRA
entities
expert
s
skos
or
gs
networks
AGROVOC
RiceOnt
projects
bibo
Open
Archives
Scholarly
Journals
agINFRA
concepts
dc
Project
Databases
Directories of
Experts and
Institutions
AgINFRA
Triplifier
ASFA
XXXXXX
orgs
org
s
XXXXXX
agInfraVocBench
AGROPEDIA
agINFRA- R.I.N.G.
Data
Repositories
Social
networking
platforms
Science
Blogs
Websites
LOR
XXX
agInfraComponents
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(2) Standards to be considered
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W3C/Semantic Web Standards
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Research Information System Model
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AgrisAP, AgMES, EML
Vocabularies and ontologies
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DC, FOAF, BIBO, MODS, IEEE LOM
Agricultrure/environmental specific metadata
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CERIF (EuroCRIS)
General purpose metadata
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OWL, RDF, SKOS, [Linked Open Data]
AGROVOC, PO, OBOE, Organic.Edunet, VOA3R RM, ASFA, NALT, JAD, agExperts
Harvesting/federated search
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OAI PMH (Drupal, Dspace, Fedora Commons), SQI
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Any LOD vocabulary publicly exposed according to the
recommendations.
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INFRA standards: EMI, OGF
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interoperability arrangements between
databases
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Interoperability is substantiated in semantic linking through RDF.
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Technical:
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Modeling, workflow and harmonization approach:
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UAH
 FP6 LUISA on SWS, Organic.Edunet mapping of terminologies, VOA3R
exposing linked data
 Team with 8+ years experience in ontologies and interoperability.
SR: STERNA coordination – semantics in NHM
AK: CEN standards committee – interoperability of LOM APs.
FAO: AGROVOC terminology services, NeOn FP6 project.
Infrastructure support for the interoperability: INFN, IPB, SZTAKI
+ (5) Main success criteria for the service, and
quantitative indicators to measure success
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Measurable increase in sharing and federation of agricultural data
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Measurable involvement of users/communities in data management
processes
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~3M agricultural and 49,5M generic bibliographic entries
~2,6M items of scientific literature open access
~100K educational resources
>5 raw data repositories (e.g. Germoplasm)
>20 pilot trials
Over 75% user satisfaction levels
>15 stakeholder events
11 data providers/networks
>20 countries and >20 languages covered
Measurable interoperability & harmonisation of metadata, semantics
and ontologies
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>5 agricultural metadata standards in various languages harmonised
>5 existing agricultural ontologies/thesauri interconnected and mapped
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(6) Type of work of subcontractors
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FAO subcontracting to IITK – explained later
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UAH subcontracting:
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IITS – resp. of sustainability of Organic.Edunet.
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Requires changing and re-scalating the operational model and
re-deployment after the refactoring to the agINFRA virtual
engine portal layer
Other VOA3R partner subcontracts:
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Not simple data integration, as they are already federated in
VOA3R which is expected to expose linked data.
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Entails migration to the Virtual Data Infrastructure Layer and
changing operations to a virtual server model.
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(3) Role of IITK in relation to the
contribution from the FAO
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Contributions of IIT Kanpur
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AgroTagger (key component of agINFRA concept and entity
Identifier)
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AgroPedia Indica – Data and Service Provider
Partner or Subcontractor?
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Both can deliver the desired results.
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Consortium happy to change status, IITK prepared for that.