RDA/IGAD Webinar Series: ‘Adopting FAIR data principles for long-term agricultural experiments data.’
As part of The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting focusing on IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues, Richard Ostler, Rothamsted Research presented a webinar during the ‘Semantics’ group of presentations on May 26.
The webinar focused on ‘Adopting FAIR data principles for long-term agricultural experiments data.’ This presentation showed the approach to FAIRifying and publishing this data and the data management and cultural challenges this has raised. The presentation concluded with future capacity development training in collaboration with the GLTEN and the University of Sokoine, Tanzania, to improve data management skills and access to data across the global long-term agricultural experiments community.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting was set to be held in Rome (Italy) in April 2020 but instead, took place as a virtual meeting from May 25 to 28. The virtual meeting provided an online platform to continue to build upon collaborations, knowledge sharing and developing innovations with activities including panel sessions, group discussions and presentations.
Authors:
Richard Ostler
Agri-Eco Informaticist, Rothamsted Research. Much of Richard’s career has been involved in addressing the challenges of data integration, especially long-term datasets. He started his career as a Computational Biologist at the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology working on integrating and mapping biodiversity and geospatial datasets and, in the early 2000s, managed the UK’s GBIF node of over 25 million biodiversity records. He then moved on to clinical trials and long-term population data before returning to the environmental sciences when he joined Rothamsted Research in 2017. At Rothamsted, Richard is an advocate for the application of FAIR data principles leads the Agri-Ecoinformatics Group tasked with improving the discovery, access and re-use of agri-ecological datasets, in particular for Rothamsted’s famous long-term field experiments. Richard has also led development of the Global Long-term Agricultural Experiments Portal, launched in October 2019.
