Final report of the first BDE workshop on "Big Data for Food, Agriculture and Forestry" [via BDE-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the Bioeconomy Community Group]

 

We already published a short summary of the first BDE workshop on "Big Data
for Food, Agriculture and Forestry".

Now the full report is available here: BDE-SC2-1st-workshop-Finalreport.

Overall, what came out of the discussions was that the special thing about big
data in agriculture is its extreme variety. This is what you get, if you
contrast the four V’s of big data to the data types and sources that are
typically used in agricultural and food research. In most cases we are not
talking about an extremely large Volume (other domains have much more voluminous
data); it is not that data come with an extremely high Velocity, especially
compared to other domains. In many cases, their Veracity is quite high. But in
food and agriculture, data Variety matters the most: you need to combine
multiple, heterogeneous data types and formats from several sources, trying to
solve the information problems and support decision making of the relevant
stakeholders.

However, real cases where volume and velocity were high were reported. The
discussion indicated that it will be important for the BDE project to more
precisely understand the order of magnitude of  the data types discussed in
this workshop (e.g. streaming data over decades, genomic data…) and the actual
need for big data technologies.



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'Final report of the first BDE workshop on "Big Data for Food, Agriculture and
Forestry"'

https://www.w3.org/community/bde-food/2015/11/27/final-report-of-the-first-bde-workshop-on-big-data-for-food-agriculture-and-forestry/



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