AGRO SHOW 2024 involving DATAMITE
AGRO SHOW, the largest open-air agricultural exhibition in Europe, was held from 20 to 22 September 2024 in Bednary, Poland. The International Agricultural Exhibition has been organized by the Polish Chamber of Commerce of Agricultural Machinery and Facilities since 1999, becoming a premier event in agricultural technology where farmers and agrifood related companies can explore technical innovations and a diverse array of products. The event facilitates valuable interactions between manufacturers, importers and farmers, enabling them to exchange knowledge on various agricultural aspects.
This year, the exhibition attracted 76,200 visitors and was attended by 670 companies, 106 of which were international. The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) - one of DATAMITE’s agricultural use case providers - did not want to miss this important event. PSNC had a booth at the fair from which it promoted the DATAMITE project by projecting a presentation and showing the attendees at the event how DATAMITE supports the development of data spaces solutions for agriculture.
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DATAMITE at IEEE COINS 2024
The IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent systems (COINS) 2024 was held from 29 to 31 July in hybrid mode: online and face-to-face in London, UK. The conference includes a multidisciplinary programme, from technical research papers to panels, workshops and tutorials on the latest technological developments and innovations addressing all important aspects of the IoT & AI ecosystem, bringing together experts in Digital Transformation, from AI and IoT to Cloud, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Robotics, from around the world.
One of this year’s vertical tracks discussed during the conference was ‘smart agriculture’ with the aim of exchanging and discussing innovative proposals on agriculture, livestock farming, aquaculture and forestry based on Internet of Things and other related technologies, techniques and architectures. DATAMITE played a leading role in the discussions on this topic thanks to the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) -DATAMITE ‘Connecting eDWIN to data markets’ use case provider-. PSNC led the track on two sessions highlighting AI, IoT & data management in agriculture.
Marcin Plociennik from PSNC presented a shared paper titled ‘Architecture of the Framework Supporting Data Monetization: Building Blocks to Foster Data Sharing in the Agriculture Domain’, followed by a discussion on the data monetisation aspects and the related challenges in the agriculture area.
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Open Science Practices in DATAMITE
Before starting to talk about any subject, it is necessary to define the topic to be addressed. So let's start with the basics: what is open science? It is an approach to the scientific process based on open cooperative work, tools and the dissemination of knowledge. DATAMITE is fully committed to open science practices, following the guidelines set by Horizon Europe. Our approach is based on four key principles that ensure transparency, reproducibility and broad public awareness throughout the research process.
Early and Open Research Exchange
At DATAMITE, we believe that sharing research results and plans early in the process improves the overall quality of the work. By sharing our plans prior to implementation, we ensure a more rigorous and unbiased approach, which reinforces the validity of our output.
Management of Research Results for Reproducibility
We make all data, methods and findings publicly available through open access repositories, allowing others to reproduce and build on our work. To facilitate this, we use standardised frameworks and persistent identifiers (PIDs), which help ensure that our research can be reliably reproduced and reused by the wider scientific community.
Open Access and Peer Review
Open access to research results is another fundamental component of DATAMITE's approach. We adhere to EU regulations on open access and open science, making our work accessible to the widest possible audience. We use two strategies to achieve the highest possible impact: Green Open Access (self-archiving in open repositories) and Gold Open Access (publication in open access journals). By contributing to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), we help make data and research results easily discoverable, sharable and interoperable across platforms and disciplines.
Stakeholder Involvement and Citizen Science
Public and stakeholder participation plays a vital role in DATAMITE's success. This inclusive approach not only increases the relevance and effectiveness of our work, but also enhances creativity and transparency. By collaborating with policy makers, businesses and citizens, we ensure that our research is aligned with society's needs and values, while expanding the scope and quality of our data.
Additional Efforts to Guarantee Open Science
In addition to the key principles described above, DATAMITE uses online repositories to manage and publish research materials, making them available with different access permissions. We rely on platforms such as Zenodo, which is part of the EOSC, to deposit both publications and datasets. We also encourage the use of Open Research Europe, a platform that offers open access publishing without author fees, ensuring that our research remains accessible and compliant with open access standards. Wherever possible, we make our datasets publicly available through the official EU data portal.
Finally, DATAMITE also takes great care to adhere to Open Science standards. We ensure that all peer-reviewed publications are deposited in trusted repositories under Creative Commons licences, providing immediate open access. Each publication is accompanied by detailed metadata, ensuring compliance with FAIR principles and making our research fully transparent and accessible to others.
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DATAMITE at IEEE COINS 2024
The IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (IEEE COINS) 2024 took place during 29-31 July in a hybrid format from London and online. It is a premier global event focused on exploring and shaping the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystems, bringing together professionals and enthusiasts eager to seize the opportunities offered by cutting-edge digital technologies. The conference addresses a wide range of topics, such as AI, IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Robotics.
One of this year's themes was Smart Agriculture, and DATAMITE played a leading role in the discussions on this topic. The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) -a member of the DATAMITE consortium- led the track on Smart Agriculture, that consisted of two sessions with interesting talks about AI, data management and IoT appliances in the Agriculture field. During these sessions, Marcin Plociennik from PSNC presented a shared paper titled "Architecture of the Framework Supporting Data Monetization: Building Blocks to Foster Data Sharing in the Agriculture Domain”. Discussions took place on the data monetisation aspects and the related challenges in the Agriculture area.
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) 2024
The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) was held from 27 - 30 June in a Hybrid format, in Corfu and online. AIAI is a renowned international conference that brings together scientists and researchers each year to exchange the latest and most cutting-edge advances in the field. Its programme includes workshops that provide an ideal setting for the presentation of leading-edge conference papers.
DATAMITE had a strong presence at this year’s conference. On the one hand, DATAMITE organised and moderated a panel discussion with other EU-funded projects, and, on the other hand, the project presented five conference papers in two different sessions. The day with the highest number of DATAMITE participants was Thursday, 27 June, the first day of the conference. DATAMITE participated in the 5G-PINE 2: 5G – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge (5G-PINE) Workshop with four Conference Papers:
- “Boosting Data Monetization with DATAMITE”, led by Jordi Arjona Aroca from ITI and presented by Vasilis Siopidis from CERTH.
- “Data Monetization Opportunities and Challenges: The European Landscape by DATAMITE”, led and presented by Christos-Antonios Gizelis from OTE.
- “Market Analysis of a Data Platform in the European Data Ecosystem”, led by Gabriel Gonzalez-Castañe and presented by Eduardo Vyhmeister from University College Cork.
- “Scalable Data Profiling for Quality Analytics Extraction”, led by Anastasios Nikolakopoulos and presented by Efthymios Chondrogiannis from ICCS - NTUA.
Following the publications presentation session, DATAMITE organised an interactive session - panel discussion to bring together experts from various EU-funded projects to discuss the importance and impact of data and its monetisation in various industries. The session was moderated by Antonis Sapountzis (AUSTRALO), Outreach, Exploitation, and Collaboration leader of DATAMITE. The participating projects, together with DATAMITE, were: ELOQUENCE, CyberSecDome, 6G-PATH, AMBITIOUS and Smart5Grid.
“Communication and dissemination activities are essential for European projects. It is very important to be able to transfer the knowledge, and the outcomes and the results of the project to the general public, but also to the targeted stakeholders -the potential users- and to the future companies and organisations that will use the project results”, Antonis Sapountzis states.
To conclude its participation in the conference, DATAMITE took part in the CSAD ( Cyber Security / Anomaly Detection) session on Saturday 29th, with a conference paper called “A Network-based Intrusion Detection System based on widely used Cybersecurity Datasets and State of the Art ML techniques”, led and presented by Efthymios Chondrogiannis from ICCS - NTUA.
The Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) Conference has been held continuously since 2005 under the auspices of the IFIP WG12.5. Over the years, it has evolved into a well-respected and mature event under the technical and scientific co-sponsorship of the AIAI community. This community comprises an extended group of leading scientists, not only from Europe but also from all over the globe.
Meet the people behind DATAMITE: Mariano Blaya Andreu (IDSA)
DATAMITE is an ambitious project with a consortium of 26 organisations from 11 countries, but beyond the numbers are the people. With the series “Meet the people behind DATAMITE” we want to introduce the people who work every day to achieve our ambitious goal: to deliver a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework to improve data monetising, interoperability, trading and exchange in the form of software modules, training and business materials for European companies, empowering them to become new relevant players in the data economy.
Today we present Mariano Blaya Andreu, Director of Delivery at International Data Spaces Association (IDSA). "At the beginning of the DATAMITE project I helped/led the preparation of, what we call, the state-of-the-art involving the data spaces and the building blocks, also using the knowledge coming from IDSA, but also from Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC)", he explains.
When asked what makes DATAMITE special, Mariano states that " the DATAMITE framework is going to play a critical role on helping the participants from the different aspects: from the quality point of view, from the monetization point of view, and from the connectivity. The DATAMITE framework is going to ease the onboarding and the connection of different sectors".
Watch the full interview with Mariano Blaya Andreu below or here.
DATAMITE returns to Field Days
The National Field Days, the largest industry event in Poland, attracting thousands of visitors and hundreds of industry companies from all over Poland every year, took place from 7 to 8 June 2024. After the success of last year's edition, DATAMITE has participated again thanks to two of the consortium members: the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre in Poznan (WODR) and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC).
The two partners had a shared booth during the event where they presented the project and showed the latest developments to all visitors of the event. This year's focus was on solutions for data exchange between businesses and ecosystems. A topic that both partners are taking to the next level thanks to the DATAMITE use case "connecting eDWIN to data marts", where they are working together using the DATAMITE framework to overcome the challenges faced by eDWIN in relation to the lack of available data, as it relies mainly on data provided by users and different public services.
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DATAMITE at Data Week 2024
The second part of Data Week 2024 took place in Leuven (Belgium) on 5 June. This second part, in conjunction with the LAILEC conference, featured sessions, panels and talks by high-level European and national speakers and leading industry and research experts in Big Data Value and Industrial AI. The main topics of this edition gravitated around the legal and ethical aspects of data and AI: AI Law Enforcement, Generative AI/Foundation Models, Data Spaces, Data Quality, Synthetic Data and AI Regulatory Sandboxes.
Under the theme Data Value Unlocked, 11 sessions were held, including "Data Value creation", in which DATAMITE participated. This session discussed relevant aspects to take into account when obtaining high value from data, especially when including the new dimension of data sharing through data spaces. Building on previous discussions, such as the sessions held during the Data Week part 1 / Symposium on Data Spaces in Darmstadt, the session brought together experts to delve deeper into some key aspects of creating value from data, presenting different perspectives on the topic and identifying new avenues of exploration. Daniel Sáez Domingo, Technology Transfer Director ITI, attended on behalf of DATAMITE to participate in the experts discussion, held during the second part of the debate.
Data Week is the spring gathering of the European Big Data and Data Driven AI research and innovation communities. Data Week is organised by the Big Data Value Association.
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DATAMITE plenary meeting in Poznan
From 14 to 16 may, 2024, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Poznan to host its first plenary meeting of 2024. The meeting was three days divided into a first day of CodeCamp with the developers involved in the project, followed by two days of presentations of each work package with the entire consortium.
The first day was dedicated to a CodeCamp with the members in charge of developing the project's code. The team was divided into three groups to be able to talk in person about the status of the project and work together on the obstacles they are encountering. These three groups were ‘Data governance and Data discovery’, ‘Data Quality’, and ‘Gaia-X Onboarding’.
For the second and third day of the plenary meeting, the remaining partners who were not involved in the codecamp joined in. The 15th and 16th of May were dedicated to presentations of each work package and different internal workshops. These activities aimed to keep the whole consortium informed about the status of each DATAMITE element, while also fostering exchange of ideas among partners to gather valuable inputs for upcoming tasks.
Among some of the most important topics discussed were the next deliverables that the project has to present and the mid-term project review meeting that will take place during September.
In addition to the three intense days of work, the DATAMITE consortium enjoyed a guided tour of the beautiful city of Poznan followed by a local dinner and a visit to the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) facilities, thanks to the colleagues of PSNC, who hosted this plenary meeting.
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International Supercomputing High Performance Event
The International Supercomputing (ISC) High Performance 2024, was held from 12 - 16 May in Hamburg, Germany, bringing together over 3,000 international attendees to exchange ideas and knowledge on Reinventing HPC. The ISC High Performance conference and exhibition is an annual global gathering for HPC technology providers and users. It aims to foster the growth of a thriving community, including practitioners of machine learning, data analytics, and quantum computing.
DATAMITE, of course, did not want to miss the event, and was represented by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), a member of the consortium. PSNC had a booth during all the days of the conference where, in addition to other projects and works of their own, they showed and explained DATAMITE to the ISC attendees. Through a screen installed in the booth, they projected the DATAMITE video presentation and also had the opportunity to explain the latest developments and show the use case in which they participate.
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