The agINFRA project represents a unique opportunity for the innovation and transfer of scientific and technological results in the agricultural field into real outcomes that help improve scientific community-driven policy development and service deployment for data generation, management and sharing. The key goals and corresponding project objectives are as follows:
Scientific Goal: 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
Scientific Goal: Efficient data management in the agricultural research process
- Ensure stakeholder needs are met with regards to data management and sharing
- Involve as many agricultural data sources as possible to provide maximum value
- Facilitate easier curation, certification, annotation, navigation and management of data
- Create new opportunities for data intensive research in the agricultural domain
Technical Goal: Deployment of robust European service infrastructure for scientific agricultural data
- Deploy tools (exchange standards, software, methodologies) for collaboration between European institutions in data-intensive research
- Validate the approach by enabling users to interact with each other and the data
- Identify gaps in standards that will be needed to guarantee the integrity/authenticity of data
- Establish specific and realistic indicators to measure success
Technical Goal: High interoperability between agricultural and other data resources
- Improve interoperability between existing e-infrastructures
- Successfully interconnect agricultural data repositories through extended metadata
- Advance implementation and adoption of Europeana standards and specifications
