In the evolving landscape of digital technologies for agricultural and food systems, the PhenoHarmonIS2024 workshop will serve as a key touchpoint for technical experts working at the intersection of data and information science and diverse agricultural knowledge domains.
The workshop's historical focus has been on the role of agrisemantics in FAIR principles, a role that needs now, thanks to rapid advances in natural language (NLP) processing, to extend to innovative AI-driven digital tools. AI technologies often rely on extensive data encapsulated in large language models (LLMs), potentially lacking precision in specialist areas such as agri-food research. Agrisemantics and other open symbolic knowledge representations may play a critical role in ensuring responsible applications of AI in agri-food, bridging the gap between machine-generated content and actionable knowledge. Key questions must be addressed: What are the needs in terms of standards, flows, curation to prepare data for use by these technologies? How might we improve the user experience and transform data into dialogue, aiming to establish dynamic communication channels between users and agricultural data that both leverages and builds the right knowledge base? The PhenoHarmonIS “community of communities” is uniquely positioned to bring some coherence to the NLP moment and drive agendas for action for agriculture and food.
The workshop will include such as field trial data, high-throughput phenotyping and agronomy datasets, agroecology and, for the first time, will include water management, as well as food technology, data transparency the food chain, particularly in the production segment, and socio-economics.
FAIR-IMPACT at the event
Clement Jonquet (INRAE and partner of FAIR-IMPACT) will showcase FAIR-IMPACT's work on Communicate about semantic artefact catalogues.
Official event page: https://www.hdigitag.fr/evenements/phenoharmonis-workshop-2024
