Research Data Management at International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRI

RDA-IG Agriculture Data Interoperability - P5 Meeting Session

March 9, 2015

Luz Marina AlvaréHead, Knowledge Management

With contributions by:Indira Yerramareddy, Cristina Perez, and Nilam Prasai

A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania as a Discussion Paper and distributed in CD-ROM

First Release of Data Research

SAM Data

Since then IFPRI Datasets

First IFPRI DataA 1998 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Tanzania by Peter Wobst

IFPRI Data by TypeHousehold Surveys(47)Social Accounting Matrix (58)Institution Level (6)Country Level (56)Regional (3)Agricultural R&D Indicators (51)Geospatial (4)IFPRI Data by RegionAfrica (60)Asia (24)Latin America (21)

Internal repositories for collected data

Web

Open Repositories (Dataverse, Datahub)

Tableau

Structured Data

Ontologies

API

Change: Infrastructure

Data Curator (2011): prepare data for public consumption; make data available from mutable repositories and tools; generation of interactive data and visualizations

Knowledge Management Coordinator (2014): LOD, Ontologies, VIVO

Research Data Manager (pending): support researchers with the collection and analysis of data generated by research; preparing data management plans

Change: Staff

Provide quality control, make data complete, valid and provide documentation

Facilitate to find data, making it available at repositories and other resources (public and private)

Publish the data in as many formats and possible

Make it interoperable

Support data users (clients)

Provide training

What we do with the data

IFPRI Data Users

IFPRIDATA

Students

Researchers

Organizations

others

Policymakers

Faculty

Addis Ababa UniversityCentre for Policy DialogueColumbia UniversityGeorge Washington UniversityIslamic Development BankJawaharlal Nehru UniversityMin. of Economic Planning & Dev.MITUC BerkeleyUniversity of TokyoWageningen University

Remixed by Users

IFPRI Linked Open Data

Use of Global Hunger Index LOD

LandPortal

IFPRI’s GHI LOD Integration provides a consolidated, comparative view

Data File Formats:JSON, XML, CSV

Increase interoperability across the CGIAR and others in the agricultural sector

IFPRI is making its data available in different formats to increase interoperability

Data Interoperability

IFPRI

CGIAR Centers

FAO

Others

Land

Portal

Agricultural Technology Ontology

Represents the work done through the CGIAR Research Programs

Goal to create a way to compare outputs to countries’ National Agricultural Investment Plans

Link to Crop Ontology (Bioversity)

AGROVOC and Geopolitical ontology (FAO)

Data Portals

Interactive Tools

Linked Open Data (LOD)

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn

Access IFPRI Datasets Through

http://datahub.io/group/ifpri

http://www.ifpri.org/datasets

Increase data access and availability (formats, users)

Interoperability (policies, tools, taxonomies, standards)

Higher demand, has increased the need of user support

Make data more valuable by working in partnerships

Promotion of data hakatons, datatons, ideatons…

Incorporate crowdsourcing functions

Support the side of using open data

Provide access to more granular data

Training

Challenges

Thank You…