We held our first meet-up of 2020 on March 10 at 14:00 UTC.

The tentative agenda is:

• Opening
• Annual report of CoP SED
• News from the working groups
• Key activities and deliverables for 2020
• Looking ahead at INSPIRE 2020
• AOB
• Closing

The meeting notes are available here

Opening the future of food. We need to speed up impact on the biggest issues in food.

This fall/winter, three events are taking place showcasing and discussing digital innovations to make our food system more circular, sustainable and future-proof. Each event is focused on a part of the food chain: starting with a consumer-orientated event on building trust, followed by an event entirely for our farming industry and closing with our food supply chain as a whole.

The future of food exists in a world where smart agriculture, smart production, smart logistics, smart trade, smart consumption and smart financing come together. Blockchain is a promising technology to make this happen. It can fundamentally improve our food systems: it provides a ‘single layer of truth’, can better guarantee food safety and stimulate circularity along the supply chain.

The first events took place end of September and end of November. Next Strike Two event is February 20 in the Netherlands.

(read more...)

The CoP newsletter is coming out on January 16, so watch your inbox. Read about AgriFoodTrust , Gender meets BigData, FAIR data, and Strike Two Summit, novel data analytics, recent reports, media content and more.

If you haven't signed up you wont receive the newsletter. Sign up and tick the socio-economic data community of practice box.

The GODAN Action network developed a free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Open Data Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition. The course was designed to reach and train a higher number of participants, from a wide range of countries, who can use the online resources to study at a time and location convenient for them. (read more...)

Early 2017, the nascent community of practice on socio-economic data held its first virtual meet-ups. One of the first things that emerged from these discussions was the recognition that any form of standardization in the socio-economic domain was conspicuously absent. In an effort to redress the challenges facing socio-economic data reuse and data interoperability, three working groups emerged. The working group 100Q focused on identifying key indicators and related questions that are commonly used and could be used as a standard approach to ensure data sets are comparable over time and space. The working group SociO! focused on the development of a socio-economic ontology with accepted standardized terms to be used in controlled vocabularies linked to socio-economic data sets. The working group OIMS focused on the development of a flexible and extensible, ontology-agnostic, human-intelligible and machine-readable metadata schema to accompany socio-economic data sets.

The first report from the community of practice on socio-economic data, "Towards a core approach for cross-sectional farm household survey data collection: a tiered setup for quantifying key farm and livelihood indicators ", presents the results of the work conducted in the working group 100Q.

download the report

Opening the future of food. We need to speed up impact on the biggest issues in food.

This fall/winter, three events are taking place showcasing and discussing digital innovations to make our food system more circular, sustainable and future-proof. Each event is focused on a part of the food chain: starting with a consumer-orientated event on building trust, followed by an event entirely for our farming industry and closing with our food supply chain as a whole.

The future of food exists in a world where smart agriculture, smart production, smart logistics, smart trade, smart consumption and smart financing come together. Blockchain is a promising technology to make this happen. It can fundamentally improve our food systems: it provides a ‘single layer of truth’, can better guarantee food safety and stimulate circularity along the supply chain.

The first event took place end of September. Next Strike Two event is November 22 in the Netherlands.

(read more...)

A newsletter is out focusing primarily on the upcoming CGIAR Platform for Big data in Agriculture Convention 2019 in Hyderabad India (see post below). Did you miss the newsletter? click on the picture to the right to get access.

The community of practice had its first virtual meetup of 2019. Because of the delay in sending out our newsletter, only a few people could attend. The presentations and meeting notes can be found here.

The OIMS team has started a tour, presenting the concepts and philosophy of the platform-independent, ontology-agnostic, machine -readable and human-intelligible, flexible and extensible metadata schema OIMS. (read more...)

Read here or download PDF version

2019 Work Plan (PDF) – Detailed description of expected outcomes and deliverables for 2019 of the CoP