Presentation by Odile Hologne delivered at the 2nd eROSA Policy Workshop in Brussels, 11/12/2017

1. e-ROSA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No
730988
Policy workshop | Brussels, 11 December 2017
The e-ROSA project
Towards an e-infrastructure roadmap for open science in
agriculture

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eROSA in brief
Coordination and support action (infrasupp 3 2016)
18 months
Started in January 2017
Consortium: INRA (FR), WUR Alterra (NL), Agroknow (GR)
« Brother » project: AgINFRA+ : prototype new services
 Support small-size foresight roadmaps for research and education communities and
operators of e-infrastructure services.
 Identification of potential collaboration from stakeholders across different
geographic areas and scientific domains.

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e-ROSA approach
Stakeholder Workshops
① ② ③

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What we have done so far
Bibliometric analysis
> Initial scoping of the e-ROSA community, updating in progress
Online map
> Cataloguing key stakeholders, initiatives and infrastructures; ongoing open call
First Stakeholder Workshop: 6-7 July 2017 in Montpellier
> Initiate comunity-building and improve knowledge of the current landscape
Vision paper
Second Stakeholder Workshop: 27-28 November 2017 in Wageningen
> Identify scientific and data/ICT needs and discuss the vision
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/sites/erosa_deliverables/D1.1.pdf
http://www.aginfra.eu/discover
http://www.erosa.agin
fra.eu/node/47
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnHl_h1nzSBqfiw9fFE2XVVt8S-LFrtwunM2b5TNEcE/edit

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EOSC Declaration endorsment
Data culture and FAIR Data
Research data services and architecture
Governance and Funding
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/eosc_declaration.pdf

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Our commitments, we will
Build a roadmap to implement the vision
Make the link with generic e-infra
Be part of the governance
Foster data culture and best practices
Improve Interoperability and shared standards
Build on existing resources : AGINFRA+
Organize the governance and find a business model for our common
goods (semantic resources, catalogues of resources)
Support capacity building via competence centres

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Implementation Status in the agricultural domain of these facets

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Semantic : the missing component of EOSC pilot and Hub

10. Vision paper
(T3.2, D1.5)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnHl_h1nzSBqfiw9fFE2XVVt8S-
LFrtwunM2b5TNEcE/edit

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A collaborative and open system …
… In the open science based knowledge system, researchers :
 openly collaborate with different societal stakeholders to further improve
the functioning of the food system;
 deploy a systems approach including the impacts and consequences in the
whole food systems in their research, not studying effects and disciplines in
isolation;
 undertake fully data-driven research …. And also hypothesis-driven research;
 work impact-based, to place their research in the broader societal context
and show what the implications of the research are.

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An e-infra that support the Data flows
The agri-food sector is dealing with an increasing amount and variety of data due to:
• The multidisciplinary, multiscale nature of agri-food science, which is adopting a more and more systemic
approach;
• The automation of data collection thanks to robots, sensors, etc., as well as new engineering tools such as in the
omics field;
• The development of new types of data sources: e.g. Internet of Things, citizen science, text-mining

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Data sharing: beyond the technical issues
Societal priorities imply the maximum of transparency and access to data;
Business interests can support differing objectives
Personal privacy concerns I want to
protect my
« know
how »I want to
know where
it comes
from
I want to
understand
….

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Towards the e-infrastructure
Key issues to address
E-infrastructure governance
Distributed organisation : institutional, national, European,
national, European, international
Services of an e-infra as invisible as possible
E-infrastructure “commons” :
Generic / Agri-food sciences
Sciences / private sector

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Next steps
Vision & Roadmap content:
 Semantics
 Link with generic infrastructures
 Capacity-building
 Governance
 Etc.
Calls for proposals
 Défi 2: DT-SFS-26-2019: Food
Cloud demonstrators
 INFRAEOSC-02-2019: Prototyping
new innovative services

16. CONSORTIUM
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