Big Data Europe Webinar@AIMS: INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenges [via BDE-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the Bioeconomy Community Group]

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope Consortium is pleased to
announce the webinar “INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation
Challenge”.

It will present perspectives and implementation challenges of big data for
agronomic research organisations.
It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software
developers and other interested people.



 

 

Abstract

The "INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenges" webinar will
give a perspective on big data and implementation challenges for agronomic
research organisations such as the French National Institute for Agricultural
Research (INRA). The presenter will focus on the characteristics of big data in
agriculture using a specific case study on high throughput plant phenotyping
where a lot of heterogeneous data need to be generated and managed. This use
case shows how to deal with variety of data.

Presenter

Pascal Neveu is director of Mistea Laboratory at Montpellier SupAgro-INRA. He is
the head of Cati CODEX, center dedicated to data and knowledge management. He
was the leader of the workpackage « Data management and knowledge
representation » for CAFE European Project. He teaches at the Montpellier
University and the School of Agricultural Engineering topics related to computer
science for statistical and numerical computing (R, Scilab, etc) and computer
sciences, database design, XML technologies and Information management.

Date

23rd November 2015  - 11:00 Rome Time (Use Time Converter to calculate the time
difference between your location and Rome, Italy)

How to join

The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to
attend the webinar, send an e-mail to AIMS@fao.org, containing the following
information:

 your name
 your affiliation
 your e-mail
 your country

System requirements

Once you have requested to attend the webinar, you will receive an e-mail
confirming your place with an URL access. Make sure that:

 you have good internet connection
 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
 Adobe® Flash® Player 10.3. If in doubt, go to Checking system requirements of
the web conferencing programme Adobe Connect.

Sponsors

This webinar is co-sponsored by the BigDataEurope (BDE) project, the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and CIARD



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