Data and Modelling Infrastructure for Living Labs · IAT · ZALF

Living Labs, Data & Models

A working-group template for talks, lectures, and updates from the DML team

Benjamin Samuel Black

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

2026-06-30

What is DML?

Working Group

The Data and Modelling Infrastructure for Living Labs (DML) working group operates inside the Innovation Centre for Agricultural System Transformation (IAT) at ZALF.

Section header

Three Strata of Services

Slide with a bullet list

  • DM Serif Display for headings, DM Sans for body
  • Warm paper background — easier on the eyes than pure white
  • Teal-dark primary, with green / olive accents from the brand palette
  • A small DML mark sits in the lower-right corner of every content slide

Two-column layout

Field

Living Labs collect heterogeneous data from real working farms — soil sensors, weather stations, management logs, drone imagery.

Model

We stitch that data into reproducible model pipelines and feed insights back to the labs.

Callouts

A note

Quarto callouts are styled to match the brand — a thin teal-dark stripe and sans-serif title.

A tip

Use [label]{.eyebrow} to add the small uppercase eyebrow above any block.

A warning

.callout-warning picks up the olive accent from the brand palette.

Code

library(tidyverse)

soil <- read_csv("data/soil-2025.csv") |>
  filter(depth_cm <= 30) |>
  group_by(plot_id) |>
  summarise(
    soc_mean = mean(soc_pct, na.rm = TRUE),
    n        = n()
  )

A table

DML service catalogue
Service Owner Status
Data lake DML Production
Model registry DML Beta
Workflow runner DML/IAT In design

A blockquote

Living Labs are not field trials — they are negotiated spaces where farmers, researchers, and policy actors co-design the questions worth answering.

Thanks

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More information

You can learn more about controlling the appearance of RevealJS output here: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/

Thank you!

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