Webinar: Big Data Platform Tools and Services

Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2020, 4:00PM Central European Time

Duration: 20min

Content: COVID-19 has shown that Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data assets are the building blocks for data-driven, collaborative and agile crisis response and resilience over the long term. Responding rapidly and effectively to crises and disruptions in agriculture similarly hinges around enabling discovery of and access to publications, data, and data products that are interpretable and interoperable – for humans and machines. This is also a critical piece of the strategy for enhancing the impact of research and development in the agricultural domain in general, and for catalyzing innovation in our efforts to fuel a “translational agriculture” revolution. There is a strong model in the biomedical sector to achieve seamless discoverability, interlinkages and interoperability across their data resources. Guided by this, CGIAR’s Big Data Platform has developed and/or curated several openly available solutions to enable good data management practices leading to the generation of open and FAIR data assets, along with tools to access them, and an analytical environment and other services to more seamlessly and ethically process and derive insight from data. This talk will provide an overview of these, recognizing that there may be a data gap in this moment of crisis, but also an increased commitment to open, human and machine interoperable data through the systematic use of these tools and services.