International Data Week 2018 in Botswana

Digital Frontiers of Digital Science – that was the theme of the last International Data Week held on 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana.

Karel Charvat from Plan4all in several occasions showed the results and community work under the umbrella of the Plan4all association. This includes the INSPIRE hackathon process, Open Land Use and processing big data for agriculture applications.

We saw a great interest from North America, Africa and Asia.

Inspire Hackathon – Integration of Research Projects Sustainability with Citizens Participation from plan4all

The Open Land Use is a world wide dataset that is continuously improving based on available data and financial resources. The most discussed were the aspects of data harmonisation and other semantic aspects of the dataset. A collaboration was set up with the Land Matrix – global land monitoring initiative.

Open Land Use – the Current Status and Steps Forward from plan4all

The DataBio project in collaboration with EUXDAT are developing several agriculture applications using big data from agriculture machinery and Earth observation. The use of RDF as semantic representation of data was the most questioned topic of the presentation.

Visualisation of big data in agriculture and rural development from plan4all