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Background: Digital twins (DT) are the coupling of a real-world physical asset to a virtual repre... more Background: Digital twins (DT) are the coupling of a real-world physical asset to a virtual representation to provide insight and actionable knowledge. The benefits of DT are considered to include improvements in reproducibility, reliability of interventions, increased productivity, as well as increased time for innovation. For instance, a DT could be used to boost agricultural productivity whilst also meeting various targets (e.g., biodiversity, sustainability). Or a DT could be used to monitor a cell culture, predict interactions, and make subtle adjustments to maintain the environment allowing researchers to conduct other work. Yet in developing DT two fundamental questions emerge: ‘What will the DT capabilities be?’ (i.e., the range of features and possible actions) and ‘What will the DT do?’ (i.e., which capabilities will it utilise). Methods: Here we discuss a theoretical framework for DTs developed during Wageningen University & Research’s Investment Programme on DTs that ai...
Journal of Animal Science, 2009
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines standards for the geospatial domain. The purpose of ... more The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines standards for the geospatial domain. The purpose of open standards is to provide interoperability. However, in our daily practice of creating web applications based on a service oriented architecture we experienced that problems associated with the application of OGC standards do surface. In this paper, a conceptual model on the use of these standards
e-Infrastructures for research have to help research to be more effective and efficient in contri... more e-Infrastructures for research have to help research to be more effective and efficient in contributing to the achievement of the societal or grand challenges as captured by the Sustainable Development Goals, or the Europe 2020 strategy. Even if this sounds obvious, this is not self evident how to link challenges as comprised by the societal goals and impacts of research, to the role of research and the supporting role of e-infrastructures and associated ICT and data solutions. In this deliverable we describe an approach for linking these elements in comprehensive storylines. The assumption is that these links cannot be meaningfully done on the general level, but need to be understood on a case by case basis first before overall lessons can be drawn based on a requirements analysis across cases that are similar. These synthesized overall requirements subsequently provide guidance for the development of e-infrastructures of relevance to agriculture and food, that will be the final ou...
Het rapport beschrijft het ontwerp van de nulversie van het weportaal voor de cultuurhistorie. Pe... more Het rapport beschrijft het ontwerp van de nulversie van het weportaal voor de cultuurhistorie. Per fase, de inventarisatie, informatieanalyse, logisch ontwerp en technisch ontwerp zijn de resultaten van het project in notities uitgewerkt. Na het afronden van de bouw van de nulversie van het webportaal is een acceptatietest en een usability test uitgevoerd. De bevindingen van beide testen zijn ook in dit rapport opgenomen.
In this paper we will focus on the use of semantic web technologies to support easy, user-oriente... more In this paper we will focus on the use of semantic web technologies to support easy, user-oriented access to SDIs, and on the specific issues that occur because of the spatial nature of data. A key-register for the soil and subsurface domain is being set up to provide access to soil and subsurface data to users with a wide variety in background and an equal large variety in vocabularies. The data models the data is stored in are defined in professional terminology. An infrastructure was designed and developed, that provides a semantic shell on top of an OpenGIS based spatial data store for soil and subsurface information. A first version of a web application (BRON portal) has been developed to support (end) users to pose a query related to the soil and subsurface domain in the language of their own specific domain (e.g. environment, agriculture, hydrology) and to their level of expertise (e.g. professionals, policy-makers, inexperienced). The semantic shell translates user questions...
This paper describes current developments in the Netherlands to come to National standards for th... more This paper describes current developments in the Netherlands to come to National standards for the use and exchange of Spatial Information. Current increased use of internet techniques and electronic information exchange created the need for standardised methods in communication. The basic concepts date back to 1995 when the Dutch National standard NEN3610, the "real estate Information Model" (terreinmodel vastgoed) was accepted by the Dutch National Normalisation Organisation. The model was accompanied by a standard exchange format NEN1878 still based on the classical concepts of "punch card" formatted files .The last few years several developments took place which led a call for updating these standards. Most important were the activities to encourage Dutch municipalities to make Spatial Plans digital exchangeable according the Information Model for Spatial Planning (IMRO), closely related to NEN3610. Secondly the efforts of the ministry of Agriculture to set up an Information Model for the so called "Green Space"(everything except urban areas).
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Background: Digital twins (DT) are the coupling of a real-world physical asset to a virtual repre... more Background: Digital twins (DT) are the coupling of a real-world physical asset to a virtual representation to provide insight and actionable knowledge. The benefits of DT are considered to include improvements in reproducibility, reliability of interventions, increased productivity, as well as increased time for innovation. For instance, a DT could be used to boost agricultural productivity whilst also meeting various targets (e.g., biodiversity, sustainability). Or a DT could be used to monitor a cell culture, predict interactions, and make subtle adjustments to maintain the environment allowing researchers to conduct other work. Yet in developing DT two fundamental questions emerge: ‘What will the DT capabilities be?’ (i.e., the range of features and possible actions) and ‘What will the DT do?’ (i.e., which capabilities will it utilise). Methods: Here we discuss a theoretical framework for DTs developed during Wageningen University & Research’s Investment Programme on DTs that ai...
Journal of Animal Science, 2009
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines standards for the geospatial domain. The purpose of ... more The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines standards for the geospatial domain. The purpose of open standards is to provide interoperability. However, in our daily practice of creating web applications based on a service oriented architecture we experienced that problems associated with the application of OGC standards do surface. In this paper, a conceptual model on the use of these standards
e-Infrastructures for research have to help research to be more effective and efficient in contri... more e-Infrastructures for research have to help research to be more effective and efficient in contributing to the achievement of the societal or grand challenges as captured by the Sustainable Development Goals, or the Europe 2020 strategy. Even if this sounds obvious, this is not self evident how to link challenges as comprised by the societal goals and impacts of research, to the role of research and the supporting role of e-infrastructures and associated ICT and data solutions. In this deliverable we describe an approach for linking these elements in comprehensive storylines. The assumption is that these links cannot be meaningfully done on the general level, but need to be understood on a case by case basis first before overall lessons can be drawn based on a requirements analysis across cases that are similar. These synthesized overall requirements subsequently provide guidance for the development of e-infrastructures of relevance to agriculture and food, that will be the final ou...
Het rapport beschrijft het ontwerp van de nulversie van het weportaal voor de cultuurhistorie. Pe... more Het rapport beschrijft het ontwerp van de nulversie van het weportaal voor de cultuurhistorie. Per fase, de inventarisatie, informatieanalyse, logisch ontwerp en technisch ontwerp zijn de resultaten van het project in notities uitgewerkt. Na het afronden van de bouw van de nulversie van het webportaal is een acceptatietest en een usability test uitgevoerd. De bevindingen van beide testen zijn ook in dit rapport opgenomen.
In this paper we will focus on the use of semantic web technologies to support easy, user-oriente... more In this paper we will focus on the use of semantic web technologies to support easy, user-oriented access to SDIs, and on the specific issues that occur because of the spatial nature of data. A key-register for the soil and subsurface domain is being set up to provide access to soil and subsurface data to users with a wide variety in background and an equal large variety in vocabularies. The data models the data is stored in are defined in professional terminology. An infrastructure was designed and developed, that provides a semantic shell on top of an OpenGIS based spatial data store for soil and subsurface information. A first version of a web application (BRON portal) has been developed to support (end) users to pose a query related to the soil and subsurface domain in the language of their own specific domain (e.g. environment, agriculture, hydrology) and to their level of expertise (e.g. professionals, policy-makers, inexperienced). The semantic shell translates user questions...
This paper describes current developments in the Netherlands to come to National standards for th... more This paper describes current developments in the Netherlands to come to National standards for the use and exchange of Spatial Information. Current increased use of internet techniques and electronic information exchange created the need for standardised methods in communication. The basic concepts date back to 1995 when the Dutch National standard NEN3610, the "real estate Information Model" (terreinmodel vastgoed) was accepted by the Dutch National Normalisation Organisation. The model was accompanied by a standard exchange format NEN1878 still based on the classical concepts of "punch card" formatted files .The last few years several developments took place which led a call for updating these standards. Most important were the activities to encourage Dutch municipalities to make Spatial Plans digital exchangeable according the Information Model for Spatial Planning (IMRO), closely related to NEN3610. Secondly the efforts of the ministry of Agriculture to set up an Information Model for the so called "Green Space"(everything except urban areas).