First summary of the BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges” held in Paris on 22 September 2015 [via BDE-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the Bioeconomy Community Group]

The BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry:
opportunities and challenges” was held in Paris on 22 September 2015. It was
organized by Agro-Know, FAO, GFAR and the Big Data Europe project and hosted
by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).

Following an intense pre-meeting of the Research Data Alliance Agricultural Data
Interest Group, the organizers gathered more than 40 experts from around the
world to discuss needs and requirements in terms of big data in the food and
agriculture sector.

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 (as IBM suggests) V’s of big
data to the data types and sources that are typically used in agricultural, food
and environmental research. We are not talking about an extremely large Volume;
other domains have much more voluminous data. It is not that they come with a
high Velocity, especially compared to other domains. In many cases, their
Veracity is quite high. But in agriculture, data Variety matters: 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.


This was the main message that came out of the fully packed workshop, with over
40 participants that use a large variety of data sources, types and applications
– ranging from germplasm passport descriptors to animal disease outbreaks.
Our speakers were representing some world-class research institutions.



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