Presentation at CAS- SIAT

Shenzhen, 2016-08-11Johannes Keizer, GODAN Secretariat, FAO of the UN

• GODAN Secretariat Partnerships Lead

• Team Leader at FAO for open Access and open Science

• Background: Pesticide Chemistry

Johannes Keizer, PhDThe Presenter

Johannes.keizer@fao.org

●Doubling food production for feeding 9 billion

●Knowledge Economy●Data Intensive Science●Open Access

●Key words !!

Daunting challenges - impressive opportunities:

• The life science revolution is changing our understanding of the fundamental biology of plants, animals and people. It is transforming agriculture.

• Information revolution approaches are critically transforming the retail end of food value chains- radical transparency.

• Investment opportunities- private and financial sectors aware of need to mitigate risk and build resilience into food systems.

Why Open Data?• A world where knowledge creates power

for the many, not the few• A world where data frees us — to make

informed choices about how we live, what we buy and who gets our vote

• A world where information and insights are accessible — and apparent — to everyone

• This is the world we choose(Open Knowledge International https://okfn.org/)

“… research suggests that seven sectors alone could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to

hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping established companies to segment markets …”

Source: McKinsey Global Institute

"Making these data public will allow people to make their own assessments of the progress of

our Good Growth Plan. It is also blurring the traditional roles of business, government and

NGOs by highlighting our collective responsibility to address acute global

challenges. Above all, the data will be of value to farmers, enabling them to increase

productivity sustainably and to enhance their livelihoods."

"Open data has the power to solve our most challenging sustainability problems. … Agri-tech businesses have a big role to play in

finding novel solutions to these problems. … Syngenta is taking a step that puts them at the forefront of the open data movement in

their sector. We look forward to working with them to unlock benefits for farmers and

consumers worldwide."

Mike Mack, CEO of Syngenta (2015, for 1st GGP data release)

Jeni Tennison, Deputy CEO and CTO of the Open Data Institute

Open Data

http://www.godan.info

GODAN advocates that important datasets in

agriculture and nutrition should be considered global public goods and made be

available to everyone

What is GODAN

• Advocacy • Think Tank• Knowledge Network

322 partners30. July

8 Donors in the GODAN steering group

Issue Developing country farmer

Developed country farmer

Scale-appropriate mechanization Low or none High, precision ag

Inputs: seed, water, fertilizer (quality, timeliness, access) Unreliable Reliable

Labour (availability, cost, skill) Increasingly poor N/A

Outputs: yield/profit, markets (amount, access)

High variability, poor unit production

Low variability, high unit production

Impact of changing climate High Low-moderate

Potential to adapt/agility Low High

Infrastructure, credit, insurance… Poor High

Key challenges of farmers in developing countries

Issue Developing country farmer

Developed country farmer

Scale-appropriate mechanization Low or none High, precision ag

Inputs: seed, water, fertilizer (quality, timeliness, access) Unreliable Reliable

Labour (availability, cost, skill) Increasingly poor N/A

Outputs: yield/profit, markets (amount, access)

High variability, poor unit production

Low variability, high unit production

Impact of changing climate High Low-moderate

Potential to adapt/agility Low High

Infrastructure, credit, insurance… Poor High

http://guides.library.queensu.ca/infoneeds

Key challenges of farmers in developing countries

WHAT IS OPEN DATA?

THE FAIR PRINCIPLEresources need to be

FindableAccessibleInteroperableReusable

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FAIRFAIR principle by Barend Mons, EC, EOSC

Bottom Line on Open Data

• Be accessible and curated

• Be available in a machine-readable format

• Have a licence that permits to access, use and share it

CHALLENGES

Arguments Against

• “Open data are good only for the big players”

• “Open data will create more data monopolies”

• “Research data are only in a specific context meaningful”

Different Players, Different Roles• Management myopia• Research culture/incentives • Awareness/use of standards• Relevant

workflows/tools/skills• Hosting infrastructure• Who pays?• What merits making open?• Data

governance/sovereignty• Legal/commercial limitations• Personal privacy• “Do no harm” principle

Champion open data principles Establish, monitor & enforce

policies Respect and address legitimate

concerns Invest in improved standards,

methods, and tools Fund implementation through

program / project budgets Build awareness & capacities Build evidence of impact

Courtesy Stanley Wood , BMFG

GODAN addresses these Issues through working groups

i.e. data rights and responsibilitiesi.e. data infrastructurei.e. better technical, semantic and legal interoperabilityi.e data gaps in nutrition

Big Data

Internet usage:40% of global population – 2.26 billion

Developing countries: from 0-30% in 16 yearsOn linear trend, 100% in just 22 years. Goal of UN to have 50% by 2015. Achieved 34%

Philippines ranked above US in 2015

A game changer?

Big Data Everywhere• Starting with Astrophysics• Follows molecular genetics• Observational data and sensors• Social Data• Consumer data to follow• ……….

OPEN DATA IN SCIENCE

Specific issues:

If networked science is to reach its potential,

scientists will have to embrace and reward the open

sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just

traditional journal publication.

Networked science must be open science.’

Michael Nielsen (OKI)

Specific Issues with Research Data

• Data gets lost• Incentives, Responsibilities, Rights• What aggregation level be public?• Data is not equipped with metadata• Data is not published in a machine-

readable format• Data comes always more from the

field

a personal data anecdote

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These are the data from my Phd thesis, I started to look for them

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http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV2012002800028.xml%3BDE19940007889

Data Issues

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n4/full/ng0411-281.html

https://www.rd-alliance.org/node

Research Data Alliance• Most important gathering of data

scientists• Two Plenary sessions a year,

working groups and interest groups

• GODAN works with the Agricultural Data IG

OPEN DATA PUBLISHING

New Developments

https://zenodo.org/record/8307/files/ODE-ReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf

Modified from: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/rdm/plan/data-lifecycle/

Publication

Standard metadata

Interoperable, accessible systems

Data integration – where does it begin?

纳米出版物 Nanopublication 05/03/2023 开放农业数据发展与利用研讨暨培训会

http://nanopub.org/wordpress/?page_id=65

Concept Web Alliance

What is a data journal?

• Same as a ‘regular’ journal, where you publish your articles

• Data is submitted with 4 page explanation of what it is.

• Reviewed and ultimately published with citation and doi.

• Data articles can be cited, once published, adding to your publication record (and scientific indexes)

• Data is fully open access, with copyright on the author

2015-02-25 41

Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research

• www.odjar.org• 8 submissions, 2

published, 1 accepted, 5 in review

• More submissions coming up!

• Costs: 30keuro, for authors, it is automatic

OPEN DATA APPLICATIONS

Evidence:

..on the GODAN websitehttps://www.mfarm.co.ke/

https://esoko.com/about-us/our-story/

http://vam.wfp.org/

http://foodtrade.com/

https://www.votomobile.org

https://rfcx.org/

http://agrinfo.co.tz/

http://www.icow.co.ke/

http://agris.fao.org/

http://www.amis-outlook.org/

http://agris.fao.org

Courtesy: Fabrizio Celli

AGRIS RDF RECORD

AGROVOC

How Syngenta published The Good Growth Plan progress data

Data downloadable as *.csv files Use of Creative Commons licenses ODI certificates Provision of ontology-based

metadata Other background information

www.syngenta.com/progressdata

We want more Chinese Partners

WHAT IS IN FOR YOU?

GODAN Partnership

We need your help!

We have to be thousands to make enough pressure on opening data!

Knowledge Exchange!

● Participate to discuss and resolve open questions

● Learn from successes (and failures of others)● Bring your issues to the broader community● Become a GODAN champion and influence the

community● Use the GODAN context to find new Grants for

open data

New funding possibilitiesGODAN action (~2 M BP)The activities of GODAN Action will focus on three focal

areas:1) Standards - Enhancing data standards and promoting

best practice in agriculture and nutrition to improve interoperability.

2) Research - Identifying and improving tools and methods for evaluation of the impact of open data usage in initiatives and investments in agriculture and nutrition.

3) Capacity - Building the capacity and diversity of open data users, leading to more effective use of data in tackling key agriculture and nutrition challenges.

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