The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective

The potential of big data capabilities to transform and understand global agricultural and biological systems often relies on data from different sources that must be considered together or aggregated to provide insights. The value of data is however not only in its collection and storage, but large...

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Main Authors: Basel, Ashleigh Megan, Nguyen, Kien Tri, Arnaud, Elizabeth, Craparo, Alessandro Carmelo William
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Frontiers Media 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131635
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Nguyen, Kien Tri
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description The potential of big data capabilities to transform and understand global agricultural and biological systems often relies on data from different sources that must be considered together or aggregated to provide insights. The value of data is however not only in its collection and storage, but largely in its re-use. Big data storage repositories are not enough when we consider a world brimming with escalating volumes of data, here we need to consider innovative systems and tools which address data harmonization and standardization and importantly, ones that can bridge the gap between science and end users. In this paper, we will demonstrate how CGIAR (including the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) develops a culture of co-operation and collaboration among custodians of agrobiodiversity data, as well as new directions for big data. CGIAR first launched the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture to enhance the development and maintenance of its data. This helped establish workflows of cross-platform synthesis, annotate and apply the lessons learnt. The Platform then built GARDIAN (Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation and Acceleration Network)—a digital tool that harvests from ∼40 separate open data and publication repositories that 15 CGIAR centres have used for data synthesis. While there have been significant advances in big data management and storage, we also identify the gaps to improve use, and the re-use of data in order to reveal its added value in decision making.
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spelling CGSpace1316352025-12-08T10:29:22Z The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective Basel, Ashleigh Megan Nguyen, Kien Tri Arnaud, Elizabeth Craparo, Alessandro Carmelo William big data data management biodiversity ecology open access information storage agrobiodiversity The potential of big data capabilities to transform and understand global agricultural and biological systems often relies on data from different sources that must be considered together or aggregated to provide insights. The value of data is however not only in its collection and storage, but largely in its re-use. Big data storage repositories are not enough when we consider a world brimming with escalating volumes of data, here we need to consider innovative systems and tools which address data harmonization and standardization and importantly, ones that can bridge the gap between science and end users. In this paper, we will demonstrate how CGIAR (including the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) develops a culture of co-operation and collaboration among custodians of agrobiodiversity data, as well as new directions for big data. CGIAR first launched the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture to enhance the development and maintenance of its data. This helped establish workflows of cross-platform synthesis, annotate and apply the lessons learnt. The Platform then built GARDIAN (Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation and Acceleration Network)—a digital tool that harvests from ∼40 separate open data and publication repositories that 15 CGIAR centres have used for data synthesis. While there have been significant advances in big data management and storage, we also identify the gaps to improve use, and the re-use of data in order to reveal its added value in decision making. 2023-03 2023-08-23T13:31:57Z 2023-08-23T13:31:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131635 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Basel, A.M.; Nguyen, K.T.; Arnaud, E.; Craparo, A.C. (2023) The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11: 1107393. ISSN: 2296-665X
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biodiversity
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information storage
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Basel, Ashleigh Megan
Nguyen, Kien Tri
Arnaud, Elizabeth
Craparo, Alessandro Carmelo William
The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective
title The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective
title_full The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective
title_fullStr The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective
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title_short The foundations of big data sharing: A CGIAR international research organization perspective
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topic big data
data management
biodiversity
ecology
open access
information storage
agrobiodiversity
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131635
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