Towards a Global Network of Food Safety Knowledge Hubs

KLSWG Database Subgroup

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working Group

GFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

What is the GFSP goal?

Rapid scaling of food safety practices around the world

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/global-food-safety-partnership

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

In what ways can open models achieve this goal?

Leverage investmentsImpact diverse stakeholders

Foster diverse business models

See the Open Models Concept Paperhttp://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

How does the GFSP do this?

First - adopt open operating policies

#1 Partners will give consideration to the adoption and use of open strategies and tactics across all GFSP activities including: open content (including Open Educational Resources and Open Courseware), open data, open access (research), open government, open source software, open standards, open policy, open licensing and open hardware.

#2 To stimulate innovation in the adoption of open methods and the creation of new business models that leverage open methods GFSP partners should consider the use of open competitions either within specific projects or in general.

See the Open Models Concept Paperhttp://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

How does the GFSP do this?

Second - start sharing in multiple languages

Develop ways to share open and proprietary knowledge assets

Create a hub for sharing best practicesKnowledge & Learning Systems Working Group

GFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

What should technology do?provide a federated infrastructure as the data sharing

backbone

Develop a modular and scalable architecture that may embrace and facilitate the creation of

“glocal” networks for food safety capacity building

Initial thoughts: http://sloanconsortium.org/jaln/v17n2/open-and-scalable-learning-infrastructure-food-safety

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

Global Food Safety Knowledge Hub

Local Food Safety Knowledge Hubs

Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Local Food Safety Community Hubs

Global Food Safety Community Hub

Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

Source diagram from Open Models concept paper: http://bit.ly/1p729Jm

hub vs. centralized approach• information resides at site of provider

– (metadata) descriptions exchanged, facilitate information dissemination & discovery

– powerful framework for multilingual information discovery• secure & safe way of exchanging information

– define access, use, re-use rights & licenses– unique identification of information providers/consumers, knowledge

assets, people• enhancing existing sites/platforms with information

– making existing systems interoperable rather than building yet-another-system

– users discover more relevant data through platforms they already useKnowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014

main components of global hub

GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY KNOWLEDGE

HUB

KNOWLEDGE SOURCES &

ENTITIES REGISTRY

KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING & INGESTION WORKFLOWS

HUB CURATION &

MANAGE-MENT

TOOLKIT

FEDERATED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SERVICES

current demonstrator

Running at: http://greenlearningnetwork.com/gfsp/

next steps

1. Deploy & validate GFSP Global Knowledge Hub– develop core infrastructure components & services – test & validate in selected KLSWG use cases (e.g. JIFSAN,

NCFPD, MSU, …)– integrate with Hubnet

2. Pilot setting up GFSP Local Knowledge Hubs in capacity building projects– adapt & provide federated knowledge discovery services to

existing projects (e.g. China, Malaysia)– demonstrate Local Knowledge Hub in a new project (e.g.

Colombia) Knowledge & Learning Systems Working GroupGFSP Denmark Working Group Meetings, April 24-26, 2014