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where agriculture, biodiversity and information technology meetDavid Morse, Jane Bromley and David King

The Open University, UK

agINFRA      EU FP7 e‐Infrastructure project – Grant agreement n° 283770      www.aginfra.eu

Aims and ObjectivesagINFRA will design and develop a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural science to facilitate the development of policies and the deployment of services that promote sharing of data among agricultural scientists and develop trust within and among the community.

The project aims to create a high level of interoperability between agricultural and other data resources using Linked Open Data technologies.

Review of stakeholder needs:Results: • target core research domains of agriculture, 

agro‐biodiversity and agro‐ecology• but must support multidisciplinary research 

domains and methods tooRecommendations:• expand the existing agricultural semantic 

layer to closely related domains• provide support for generic research 

workflows• investigate user interaction to allow for 

enhanced, cross‐disciplinary research information services

agINFRA conducted an online survey consisting of 20 questions completed by 114 information managers. Results from two questions of particular interest to TDWG are shown on the right.

Adapting agriculture to climate change through crop wild relatives:

David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first published in 1857, records the location of coffee estates in what is now Mozambique, providing an invaluable historic record. However, the book is not about coffee, nor does it have coffee in its title.

Currently there are two clear preferences for metadata standards for agricultural data.

The EU mandates open access to papers, but much data will remain closed.

E‐mail: {david.morse, j.m.bromley, david.king}@open.ac.uk