Serving Scientists in Agri-Food Area by Virtual Research Environments

Abstract

Agri-food research calls for changes in the practices dealing with data collection, collation, processing and analytics, and publishing thus to fully benefit from and contribute to the Open Science movement. One of the major issues faced by the agri-food researchers is the fragmentation of the "assets" that can be exploited when performing research tasks, e.g. data of interest are heterogeneous and scattered across several repositories, the tools exploited by modellers are diverse and often rely on local computing environments, the publishing practices are various and rarely aim at making available the "whole story" with datasets, processes, workflows. This paper presents the AGINFRA+ endeavour to overcome these limitations by providing researchers in three designated communities with Virtual Research Environments facilitating the access to and use of the "assets" of interest and promote collaboration.

Opening data and research objects in viticulture: The Viticulture Data Journal (VDJ)

“…During the AGINFRA+*9 project, ARPHA has been extended to be used from the AGINFRA+ Virtual Research Environment (VRE)*10, which would allow the authors to use the VRE as an additional gate to the AWT and the journal, as well as to benefit from the integration of AWT with several other services offered by the AGINFRA+ platform (Ballis et al 2018). The AGINFRA+ platform has been designed as a Gateway*11 providing online access through a one-stop endpoint to services (for list and description of services see: Ballis et al 2018, Filter et al 2019), aiming at the integration of the traditional narrative of research articles with their underlying data, software code and workflows.…”