OPEN DATA WORKSHOP

The project organized an open workshop with presentations about global agri-food data initiatives & networks. The workshop has been held in Chania on Friday June the 2nd 2017 in conjunction with the Open Harvest 2017 event and it opened with a keynote speech from Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning in Creative Commons.
The scope of this workshop was to connect the project activities with global open agri-food data initiatives and networks. Moreover, during the workshop a panel has been planned entitled: “From global challenges to local ones: Linking Communities around the world”, where the panelists discussed with workshop’s participants about how agricultural innovation and open data can facilitate connecting global/grand challenges (such as feeding the increasing population of the planet) with local (coming from farmers’ communities) challenges.
Presentations have been provided among others by representatives from French National Agronomic Institute (INRA), Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the CGIAR, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the Indian Statistical Institute, CABI, University of Guelph and Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
PRESENTATIONS
Beyond Licensing – The social and economic aspects of building an open data commons.
(Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons, Canada)
Ε-Infrastructure Tools and Services for Open Agricultural Sciences.
(Odile Hologne, Head of the department of scientific information, INRA and eROSA H2020 CSA Project Coordinator)
(Jan Top, Senior scientist, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research)
Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS): Overview and Current Developments.
(Johannes Keizer, GODAN Secretariat)
From Open Access to Open Science with the ARPHA Publishing Platform.
(Lyubomir Penev, Managing Director, Pensoft Publishers)
CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform.
(Medha Devare, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI & Module 1 Lead, CGIAR Big Data Platform)
OpenMinTeD: Text Mining Services for e-Infrastructures.
(Sophie Aubin, Knowledge Management Officer, INRA)
Introduction to National Science and Technology Library of China.
(Zhang Xuefu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
GODAN Initiative: Overview and Activities.
(Martin Parr, GODAN Programme Manager & CABI Head of Open Data)
Global Water Pathogens Project.
(Matt Verbyla, San Diego State University, California)
Research Data Alliance (RDA) and Research Data Management (RDM).
(Devika Madalli, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute)
Panel – From Global Challenges to Local Ones: Linking Communities Around the World
Moderator:
Panagiotis Zervas, Agroknow
Presenters:
Johannes Keizer, GODAN Secretariat
Eleni Toli, Project Manager, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center
Rozita Dara, Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons