WDI Working Group Workshop

Data discovery demonstrator for the wheat research community

Babis Thanopoulos, Agro-Know

29/06/2015, Paris, France

background

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

indicative partners & clients• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)• International Fund for Agricultural Development (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)• International Centre for Research in Organic Food

Systems (ICROFS)

advocates of open

• CIARD.net: a global movement dedicated to open agricultural knowledge

• Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN): make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide

making different systems work together

• Agricultural Interoperability Interest Group (IG), Research Data Alliance (RDA)

• Knowledge & Learning Systems Group, Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP)

contribution of Agro-Know to WDI

• map the institutions & researchers, research projects and data sources of the network

• populate the demonstrator with sample data• set up a wheat data information discovery micro

site within the Wheat initiative website

MAP THE KEY ACTORS OF THE WHEAT INITIATIVE NETWORK

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

example for food safety sector

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

example for food safety sector

example for AGRIS

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

example of collection of users’ requirements

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

example of collection of content requirements

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the Wheat demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

Preferred system requirements, in terms of …

interface

services

Search & results presentations

content

Multi-linguality

accessibility

example of collection of system requirements

mapping the network• understand & depict the Wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the WDI demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

mapping the network• understand & depict the Wheat research community• identify the user requirements– “Which is the research profile of the wheat research

community?”• identify the content requirements– “What information are of the interest of the wheat

community?”• identify the system requirements – “Which key services & functionalities should be included in

the WDI demonstrator?”• map the user & data requirements to the system

requirements and validate the Wheat demonstrator functionalities

Wireframe example

EXAMPLE FROM FAO AGRIS

current service• collects and manages agricultural

and other relevant information that have been produced or published

• provides information services on both published & unpublished literature

• promotes agricultural information utilization

• carries out research on agricultural information development

http://agris.fao.org

POPULATE THE DEMONSTRATOR WITH SAMPLE DATA

http://agris.fao.org

http://ring.ciard.net

http://www.agrifeeds.org

http://repository.cimmyt.org

http://www.agrivivo.net

http://institut.inra.fr/

an example of Wheat demonstrator

WHEAT DISCOVERY MICRO SITE WITHIN THE WHEAT INITIATIVE WEBSITE

REPOSITORY

REPOSITORY

REPOSITORY

thank you!

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