Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) Pre-Meeting Agenda Research Data Alliance 21st to 22nd September 2015 INRA, Paris (France)

1. A semantic wiki as a platform
for data in food systems
Ruthie Musker
Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis
Sustainable Agroecosystems, ETH Zürich

2. This platform is a collaborative
effort.

3. • Springer et al. (2015) Sustainable Sourcing of Global
Agricultural Raw Materials: Assessing Gaps in Key Impact
and Vulnerability Issues and Indicators. PLOS One.
• Huber et al. (2015) Indicators of global sustainable sourcing
as a set covering problem: an integrated approach to
sustainability. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1(2):7.
• Tendall et al. (2015). Food system resilience: defining the
concept. Food Security. Accepted – in press.
• Springer et al. (2015). An approach for identifying the issues
and metrics that define and measure sustainable
development in agricultural supply chains. World
Development. In Review
Publications

4. Presentation Purpose
1)Show our methods of measuring
sustainability
1)Show how we want to use and
host data (Your data!) or sync
with other tools/platforms

5. • Major gift from Mars, Inc 2011
• Additional gift from Kraft Foods, 2014
• Goal: Structured, comprehensive
methodology and tools to help
stakeholders in the food industry make
sustainable decisions along value chains
of agricultural raw materials
Background

6. • Needs to be useful for any commodity
in any location
• All data and methods would be open
access: precompetitive space,
publically-available, scientifically-
validated
Background

7. 1) Measuring sustainability in
the food system
2) Wiki as a platform for
datasets
What are we doing?

8. What is sustainability?
Corporate
Perspective
Global
Alliance
Perspective
Livelihoods
Perspective
44 Issues of Sustainable Sourcing
2000+ Indicators of Sustainable Sourcing

9. Human Capital
Diseases
Human Mortality
Labor
Literacy
Nutritional Status
Public Health
Reproductive Health
Safety
Physical & Financial Capital
Agricultural Sector
Energy
Finance
Income
Inputs
Physical Infrastructure
Natural Capital
Air & Climate
Biodiversity
Common Pool Resources
Deforestation
Ecosystem Services
Land & Soil
Oceans & Coasts
Protected Areas
Wastes & Pollution
Water
Social & Political Capital
Disasters
Educational Resources
Food Production
Geographical Distribution
Governance
Human Rights
Institutions
Markets
Participation
Population Growth
Population Structure
Property Rights
Poverty
Productivity
Public Health
Social Structure
Sociocultural Systems
Technology
Trade Policies
Women & Wages
Women’s Participation
Issues of Sustainability- AGROVOC

10. Green: Indicators
Red: Issues
Issue and indicator linkages

11. Issues
is a (+/-) condition assessment indicator of
is a (+/-) trend monitoring indicator of
is a (+/-) warning signal indicator for
is a (+/-) driver/threat indicator of
is a (+/-) key performance indicator for
Indicators
Building an ontology

12. 1) Measuring sustainability in
the food system
2) Wiki as a platform for
datasets
What are we doing?

13. Semantic Wiki
• Links agricultural data to food system users
• Can show how users are using indicators and how they
are categorizing them (language)
• Exposure to controlled vocabulary in agricultural data

14. Semantic Wiki – Home page
http://asi.ice.ucdavis.edu/sustsource/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

15. Semantic Wiki - Issue
http://asi.ice.ucdavis.edu/sustsource/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

16. Semantic Wiki - Indicator
http://asi.ice.ucdavis.edu/sustsource/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

17. • Add in more information about resilience
in food systems
• Organize by commodity, location, goal,
etc.
• Partner finder
• Depends on what users want!
Future plans

18. • How can we visualize all of this information?
• How to effectively host datasets on the wiki?
• Would it be appropriate for your datasets?
• How can we make it more useful?
• How can we sync with other tools?
• PLEASE speak to me if you are interested!!!
–rmusker@ucdavis.edu
Conclusion

19. THANK YOU!!