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Dr. Johannes KeizerOffice of Knowledge ExchangeFood and Agriculture Organization of the UN
From Open Access to Open Data in Agriculture: FAO analysis of some international initiatives and projects for datasharing
Presentation at the INRA workshop “Open Science”,
Paris, 16 April 2013
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Disappearing Data
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These are the data from my Phd thesis, I started to look for them
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https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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2nd Google Searchhttps://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertation+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV2012002800028.xml%3BDE19940007889
…at the end I found a record about my PhD thesis, somewhat proud, that I found it through AGRIS, our own service.
But the data could not be found, they were practically lost in the few print copies and microfiche of the thesis
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There will be generated more scientific data in the next 5 years than in the history of humankind
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The distribution pattern is changing
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Data definition
Data: digital recorded factual material commonly accepted n the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings
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....what is data
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Distributed Repositories
•stats•gene banks•gis data•blogs, •journals•open archives•raw data•technologies•learning objects•………..
How can I get in real time all the specimen data on useful insects from all people making research on this on my desktop? How can I share in real time my data with other colleagues working on that.
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..we dream of
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The world of which we dream
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Mechanisms Political awareness and institutional
readiness• CIARD http://www.ciard.net
Community of practice and collaboration platform• AIMS (http://aims.fao.org)
Implementation mechanisms• Collaborations with other institutions
• Funded projects
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http://www.ciard.net
To make agricultural research information and knowledge publicly accessible to all
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http://ring.ciard.net/
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http://ring.ciard.net/
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http://aims.fao.org
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RDA & agricultural dataA Domain Interest Group to represent all stakeholders producing, managing, aggregating, sharing, consuming data from/for agricultural research & innovation
• will bring existing problems & experience on the table• pave the way for a number of domain-specific WGs (e.g. germplasm
databases)• serve as a well-supported and politically important domain case for
other WGs (e.g. preservation, PID)• Positioned carefully to serve as an interface to existing fora become their
mechanism and interface for consultation with research data infrastructures
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Rajender, ICAR
I would like to submit that the Data sharing policy is a pre-cursor to data management. When I say data sharing policy, it should include methodology and means of sharing and should have inbuilt component of IPR protection. We should also think of some value addition to data shared as it would motivate the researchers to share the data. We have been trying to create a Research Data Repository. We, however, find that the researchers are very enthuasistic in sharing the data. Therefore, data sharing policy must also contain some value addition guidelines which would encourage researchers to share data in their respective domains. Along with data sharing we also need to talk on Standardization protocol. We at ICAR have initiated an Information System on Designed Experiments. One can register as a guest andlook into the basic data at http://js.iasri.res.in:8080/afeis/index.html. .
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Working Group on Wheat Data
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Data availability today
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wheat data WG (18m)Wheat: high societal and political priority & impact
G20 priority & initiative (http://www.wheatinitiative.org)in line with G8 Open Agricultural Data efforts
Complex data interoperability problemsGermplasm dataGenetic and phenotypic dataStatistical data (yield, surface, consumption …)Bibliographic data…more
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expected WG outcomesA cookbook on exposing and linking wheat-related databases/repositories
i. existing data types & selection of sample data sources to be coveredii. review of open formats for wheat data typesiii. recommendations for open & linked exposure of wheat dataiv. exposure of sample wheat data sources from international partnersv. promotion through relevant campaign (online, workshops, …)
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Open Data: Opportunities, problems and challenges exemplified on an AGRIS record
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http://agris.fao.org/openagris/search.do?recordID=JP2009006327
..and more
http://rd-alliance.org/
http://www.aginfra.eu
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