We are an organization that has been finding, connecting, and delivering agricultural and food information worldwide for the past 8 years. We consider ourselves pioneers in this area. We help other organizations build a better future for agriculture and food using open data. We work with major institutions and initiatives while also having a presence in Greece. For each project, we focus on the needs of the client institution and helping them achieve their vision. We are a flexible team of experts in areas like strategy, design, technology, and customer needs. We support our clients through various services around defining strategies, designing solutions, building applications, and engaging stakeholders using open data.

1. Hello

2. We are
What we do?

3. We find, connect and deliver
agriculture & food information
worldwide
(for the past 8 years)

4. So yes, we consider ourselves pioneers

5. We help organizations to build
a better future for all of us
using open agriculture and
food data

6. We work with major institutions and initiatives

7. At the same time, we work in Greece

8. We look at each project separately, focusing on
the needs of people in the institution and helping
them deliver their vision
But how we do that?
OUR FIRST RULE AT WORK

9. We are a flexible, intuitional team of experts
that delivers
Expert in strategy
design
Designs the most
efficient solutions
Expert in customer needs
identification and analysis
The Strategist
The Architect
The Perfectionist
Nikos Manouselis
Giannis Stoitsis
Babis Thanopoulos
Expert in data and
technology solutions
Kostas Kastrantas
The Doer

10. The rest of the Dream Team

11. Blending domain experts, computer engineers and information
scientists

12. #WESUPPORT

13. Strategy BuildDesign Engage
The elements

14.  Define a data strategy
 Which open data policies and how to comply
 How to position data-powered services
 How to set up the right team
 Which key collaborations can maximize impact
Strategy

15.  Move from users challenges to applications
requirements
 Select appropriate open source tools and
technologies
 Apply data interoperability standards
 Select relevant open data sources
 Specify data management workflows
Design

16.  Data representation and storage
 Integration workflows
 Data enrichment and linking services
 Data powered portals and applications
Build

17.  Connect with global stakeholders and initiatives
 Develop customized engagement plans
 Support and guide content providers
 Monitor usage and generate analytics
Engage

18. 6
Success Stories
3

19. AGRIS

20. 8 million
bibliographic records
350.000
visitors per month
Serving 200 data providers
20% of the total FAO visits

21. We aggregate and serve agricultural scientific
information to maximise the impact of AGRIS

22. TAPipedia
A G20 initiative

24. GWPPGlobal Water Pathogen Project

25. UNESCO, P&G and Gates
Foundation are supporting the Global
Scientific Knowledge Hub for Water Pathogens

26. 6
Linked Open Data:
The AGRIS Case
3

27. Collect Agricultural Collections through AGRIS
data help desk

28. Process multiple data ingestion formats

29. The AGRIS data integration workflow
Data/Informati
on producers
Open Data
repositories –
OAI
Web resources
Custom APIs
and RSS
XML dumps
Metadata
collection
Ingestion
module (API)
Ingestion
module
(dump)
Ingestion
Module
(crawler)
OAI harvester
Processing
Clean
metadata
Transform (CG
Core, DataCite,
RSS)
Normalize
Semantic
Enrichment
Add
Organization
URI
Add location
URIs
Add AGROVOC
URIs
Add author
URI
Metadata
publishing
RDF
JSON
Search API
(ElasticSearch)Filter

30. Support data enrichment
Input: no subject and
location URIS
Enrichment Output: Subject and
Location URIs added
powered by *
* FREME: H2020-funded EU programme. More info at: http://www.freme-project.eu/

31. Link publications with AGROVOC URI and
other resources
Corresponding FAO AGRIS Record
http://agris.fao.org/agris-
search/search.do?recordID=US201600
027578

32. 4
Thank you