Odile Hologne's presentation at the eROSA Workshop “Towards Open Science in Agriculture & Food”, a side event to High Level conference on FOOD 2030, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (13/6/2018)

1. eROSA has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 730988
@H2020_eROSA
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/

2. eROSA has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 730988
Introduction
Odile Hologne, INRA, Head of the department of scientific information
eROSA coordinator @Holo_08
@H2020_eROSA
http://www.erosa.aginfra.eu/

3. Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - grant agreement No 730988
Open science and Agri-Food, Plovdiv – june 2018
3 topics of this workshop
e-infrastructure

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Open science and food security
Open science
helped to
identify wheat
infection (wheat
blast)
threatening food
security in
Bangladesh

5. Open science
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-science
Open access
Citizen sciences
Big data
Data sharing
Social networks
Open labs
Data driven sc.

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Researchers and Open Science
Inra, internal study, 2014

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The role of infrastructure in our life
Standards
Adaptators
Skills
Tools to find our ways
Rules
Identifiers

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E-infrastructure definition
e-Infrastructure refers to a combination of digital
technologies (hardware and software), resources (data,
services, digital libraries), communications (protocols,
access rights and networks), and the people and
organisational structures needed to manage them.
They are keys in future development of research
infrastructures, as activities go increasingly "online" and
produce vast amounts of data and are at the heart of the
Digital Agenda of the European Commission to support
Open Science and the link between researchers, citizens or
private companies.

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Back to e-ROSA
A 18 months project to build
 a roadmap for an e-infrastructure for open agri-
food sciences
 a community

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The roadmap
http://erosa.aginfra.eu/?q=node/56

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The workshop, an opportunity
To present the vision and roadmap
To learn about the policy framework
To hear about different stakeholders
to discuss !

13. CONSORTIUM
WWW.EROSA.AGINFRA.EU
Thank you for your attention!
odile.hologne@inra.fr
@Holo_08
@H2020_eROSA

14. Scientific challenges
data and more ….

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The ability to support the Data flow
The agri-food sector is dealing with an increasing amount and variety of data due to:
• The multidisciplinary 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 and providers: e.g. Internet of Things, citizen
science, voice- and image-based applications, micro-blogging, etc.

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Data challenges in agri-food sciences
Massive data production in labs (sensors, robots, models ….) but also in
farms and by the citizens (of huge interest for science)
 Big data : more variety than volume
Disruption in the knowledge ecosystem (see next slide)
Data silos, poorly documented, not easy to find, nor to access (same for
semantic resources)
Different level of maturity of the practices about data (management,
sharing, analysis)
Not only about data : code, workflow …

17. Aubin S, RDA Agrisemantics Working Group and
RDA Rice Data Interoperability Working Group.
Semantics – The way to reconcile points of view
and data [version 1; not peer reviewed].
F1000Research 2017, 6:1871 (poster) (doi:
10.7490/f1000research.1114998.1)

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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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And more
Assessment
Impact

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Vision paper : 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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