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BoF Agricultural Research Data Integrity

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Welcome new RDA members!

6 Guiding Principles are at the heart of the RDA community

OPENNESS

CONSENSUS

HARMONISATION

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN

NON-PROFIT AND TECHNOLOGY-NEUTRAL

INCLUSIVITY

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Agenda

Welcome, introductions (5 mins): Stefanie, ARDC
Problem Statement (5 mins + 5 mins Menti): Whitney, BIO-ISAC (Stefanie to help with Menti)
Lightning talks

David Molik, USDA (5 mins) - Use Case
Chris Baker, University of Melbourne (5 mins, pre-recorded video) - Use Case -
Stefanie Kethers, ARDC (5 mins) - International Data Spaces - or Carme Reverte (IRTA) - TBC
Cynthia Parr (USDA) (5 mins) - Agricultural Community of Practice

Q&A (10 mins)
Discussion including e.g. the following questions (35 mins):

What are other use cases to consider?
What are the socio-technical requirements resulting from these use cases?
What existing solutions might help address these requirements?

Wrap-up and next steps (10 mins)

Is this a topic that should be pursued as an RDA WG?
If so, who would be interested in helping us progress this?
What organisations, groups and communities should be involved?

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Agenda

Welcome, introductions: Stefanie Kethers
Problem Statement: Whitney Zatzkin
Lightning talks

David Molik - Use Case
Chris Baker (pre-recorded video) - Use Case
Stefanie Kethers - International Data Spaces
Cynthia Parr - Agricultural Community of Practice
Q&A

Discussion
Wrap-up and next steps

Collaborative Notes document:

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Welcome & Introductions

Convenors and speakers

In the room: Cynthia Parr, Stefanie Kethers
Online: David Molik, Whitney Zatzkin

Participants

Housekeeping

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Aims of the session

Introduce the topic to the RDA community
Gauge interest in setting up an Interest or Working Group within RDA
Recruit interested members

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The Quest for Data Integrity

Whitney Zatzkin��Bioeconomy ISAC | whitney@isac.bio

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What is quality control �for your public dataset?

What criterion for trustworthiness must be met before data is shared through this public data initiative?

Who pushes the button to upload new datasets to the world’s leading open science datasets?

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Who is in charge?

In America, one of the leading, global datasets available to the public has data integrity and trustworthiness tasked to one person.

One person – �without a protocol focused on integrity.

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(Proposed) Standard �for Data Integrity

Ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and security of data is essential to make informed decisions based on that data.

Our ability to generate and use data outpaces our ability to verify the data is free from manipulation. It relies on trust.

It is estimated that more than 10,000 peer-reviewed articles were removed after publication due to issues with the integrity of the data examined in the studies in 2023.

A group met to create a cryptographic encryption tool to establish a standard for data integrity.

Today, you will hear more about why this effort is important, �to test and engage in this work, please email help@isac.bio.

Standard for Data Integrity (proposed)

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Agricultural Data Integrity Use Case

David Molik

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Data Challenges: Lack of Metadata

(Especially Provenance)

Dr. David Molik

USDA - Agricultural Research Service

Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Unit

The USDA is an equal opportunity lender, provider, and employer. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this presentation is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the USDA.

www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/mhk/cgahr/abadru/

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Eg. Copying data introduces the possibility of error

When data are shared from one system or user to another the originating data source no longer has control over that data
Sharing allows for changes
These changes open the analysis to errors
This problem is made worse when no metadata is recorded at all

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Agricultural Data Integrity

Use Case

Chris Baker (video)

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Agricultural Data Integrity

Use Case

Carmen Reverté Reverté

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Case study: European knowledge platform for multidimensional animal welfare assessment on farm, during transport and at the slaughterhouse

Project Period: 2024-2026

Carmen Reverté Reverté

(Research Data Manager Coordinator at IRTA)

Carme.reverte@irta.cat

Project Objective: develop a Knowledge platform in the EU with the objective to collect, analyse, share and use integrated scientific and technical data on Animal Welfare (AW)

Data Challenges: Lack of harmonization for AW data collection in the EU: data schemes, formats (free text, codes, vocabularies), parameters (scales, duration, key factors), data access and storage between others)

Outcomes & Impact: Networking, definition of standards for data collection, developing requirements for knowledge platform following FAIR principles and recommendations for data sharing

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Case study: European knowledge platform for multidimensional animal welfare assessment on farm, during transport and at the slaughterhouse

AW Knowledge Platform (KnP) Development Methodology

Data Infrastructure Requiriments

Data Management Protocols & Data Collection Definition

Data Sharing, Re-use, Storage & Visualisation

Go to QR Code to see FAIR Framework Assessment

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International Data Spaces

Stefanie Kethers

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International Data Spaces - a very Brief Overview

Stefanie Kethers, Australian Research Data Commons

Slides based on material by the International Data Spaces Alliance (IDSA) and the ARDC Dataspaces team, in particular:

Muhammad Ali
Jon Smillie
Shannon Callaghan
Rob Clemens
Kheeran Dharmawardena

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Dataspace

Connector

Usage Policies

Data

Consumer

Usage Policies

Data

Provider

Dataspace

Connector

Data User

Clearing

House

Broker or

Catalogue

Vocabulary

Identity

Provider

App Store

Data Owner

Secure data exchange

Dataspace Components

Infographic based entirely on IDSA graphic

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Legal interoperability: IDS Policy classes

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Dataspaces - a growing trend

Individuals

870+ individuals involved

Countries

Contributions span 27 countries

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Cross-domain

Agriculture, energy, mobility etc.

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100+ companies

e.g. Mercedes, Hitachi, AWS,

Microsoft, Google

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~12 fully operational dataspaces

e.g. Cantena-X, GDSO, Green Deal, Deutsche Telekom

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150+ data spaces under development

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14 Operational Dataspaces, including

Catena-X (automotive)
GDSO (tires, parts)
Green Deal DS
Mobility DS
ECI Gatewise
Deutsche Telekom
Huawei DS
Sovity DS

150 dataspaces being actively developed

in 27 countries

Cloud providers

AWS
Microsoft
Google

Over 100 companies from Mercedes to Hitachi

Domains

Agriculture
Health
Energy
Manufacturing
Environment
Mobility
Tourism
Public administration
Skills and education

Dataspaces moving forward

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International Dataspaces - becoming de-facto standard

27

People contributing

Countries

147

870+

27

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Further Information

International Data Spaces Association (IDSA): https://internationaldataspaces.org/
Data Spaces Support Centre: https://dssc.eu/

Data Spaces Starter Kit: https://dssc.eu/space/SK/32407574/1+Data+Spaces+101

Data Spaces Reference Architecture Model: https://docs.internationaldataspaces.org/ids-knowledgebase/ids-ram-4
Australian DataSpaces: https://ardc.edu.au/program/australian-dataspaces/

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Improving Global

Agricultural Data

Cynthia Parr

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Improving Global Agricultural Data

What’s next?

Ethics in Agricultural Data WG
Possible Agrisemantics & AI WG?

Aims and objectives

IGAD is a forum for sharing experiences and providing visibility to research and work in food and agricultural data. IGAD promotes good practices and RDA Recommendations in the ag research domain. It aims to establish a robust network of non-RDA orgs & people to expand the reach of RDA deliverables.

Achievements

Wheat Interoperability WG recommendations
Agrisemantics WG recommendations
Pollinator data Interoperability (WorldFAIR)
Became RDA CoP in 2023!

Community Group Card

Cynthia�Parr

USDA

Debora Drucker

Embrapa

Valeria Pesce

GFAR

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IGAD Community of Practice

RDA’s focal point for food and agricultural sciences

FOR THE AG DATA COMMUNITY

Better alignment with global practice.
Opportunities to form partnerships on specific projects.
Better ability to impact stakeholders via improved data systems and practices.
Mutual learning from exchanging experiences

FOR RDA

Minimizing the TAB’s work.
Attracting new RDA members, particularly researchers and stakeholders from low and medium-income countries.
Promoting the adoption of RDA outputs by the agricultural community.

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IGAD Liaisons

Liaisons Group: Representatives from specific regional agricultural data networks or thematic networks

Muchiri Nyaggah, Marina Razmadze, Richard Ostler, Joseph Muliaro Wafula, Patricia Bertin, James Macklin, Piotr Zaborowski, Daryl Superio, Enrico Boniauti, Brent Kemp, Karel Charvat, Viorica Lupu

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IGAD Annual Meeting 2023

Recordings https://rb.gy/kx52mu

IGAD/RDA - Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues in Eastern Europe

Farm data for Advanced Analytics

IGAD Meet and Greet 2023

Recording

Iratxe Puebla, Ian Bruno Data Usage Metrics Working Group�Kerstin Lehnert Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem Interest Group �Shelley Stall ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Interest Group, Complex Citations Working Group

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WorldFAIR Project (2022 - 2024)

Image K. Agostini CC-BY

Agricultural Biodiversity Standards, Best Practices and Guidelines Recommendations

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666593

Agricultural biodiversity FAIR data assessment rubrics https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10719265

Tutorial to standardise a Plant-Pollinator dataset with OpenRefine�https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10688865

Agricultural biodiversity FAIR data assessment rubrics�https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10719265

Debora Drucker - Embrapa/IGAD co-chair

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Institutions seeking ethical guidance
Researchers endorsing or implementing the standards
Farmers, as data subjects, data co-creators, and end users

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Q&A

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Discussion

A few questions to get us started:

Can you think of other use cases to consider?

What are the socio-technical requirements resulting from these use cases?

Do you know any existing solutions that might help address these requirements?

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Wrap-up and Next Steps

Is this a topic that should be pursued as an RDA WG?

If so, who would be interested in helping us progress this?
What organisations, groups and communities should be involved?
Who would like to be involved in driving the group?

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