Abstract
The agINFRA project (www.aginfra.eu) was a European Commission funded project under the 7th Framework Programme that aimed to introduce agricultural scientific communities to the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. agINFRA has now evolved into the European hub for data-powered research on agriculture, food and the environment, serving the research community through multiple roles. Working on enhancing the interoperability between heterogeneous data sources, the agINFRA project has left a set of grid- and cloud- based services that can be reused by future initiatives and adopted by existing ones, in order to facilitate the dissemination of agricultural research, educational and other types of data. On top of that, agINFRA provided a set of domain-specific recommendations for the publication of agri-food research outcomes. This paper discusses the concept of the agINFRA project and presents its major outcomes, as adopted by existing initiatives activated in the context of agricultural research and education.
Highlights
Introduction agINFRA was an innovative IntegratedInfrastructure Initiative (I3) project (2012–2015) that aimed to introduce agricultural scientific communities to the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science
Increased sharing and federation of agricultural data – Successfully deploy an open infrastructure for the sharing of digital agricultural content; – Include in the infrastructure resources ranging from raw observational and experimental data through to publications; – Promote the sharing of data amongst the wider scientific community to build trust; – Ensure outcomes significantly advance the state-of-the art in agricultural e-infrastructures;
– Advanced implementation and adoption of European standards and specifications agINFRA has evolved into the European hub for data-powered research on agriculture, food and the environment, and it is currently serving the research community through multiple roles, including the following:
Summary
Introduction agINFRA was an innovative Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project (2012–2015) that aimed to introduce agricultural scientific communities to the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. They may become involved in agINFRArelated, open source software development or use agINFRA Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to create useful applications such as mash-ups of research data; This stakeholder analysis was essential to understand the potential users of agINFRA, understand their needs and proceed with the deployment of an infrastructure that will serve the actual needs of the agricultural community.
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