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This has been CoRDI 2025
On August 26, the time had come: The second edition of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) opened its doors at RWTH University in Aachen. Until August 28, there was an extensive program to experience, with interesting keynotes, exciting lectures, two poster sessions, and a market of opportunities. Greater knowledge through better use of
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FAIRagro and the JKI Datacube
In the new “PFG Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science,“ colleagues from FAIRagro and FAIRagro co-applicant Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) describe in their article ”Big Geodata and Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Perspective of a German Authority” how the JKI Data Cube contributes to the research data infrastructure in Germany through FAIRagro—a practical example
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FAIRagro Data Quality Tool – what’s it all about?
In Task Area 3 “Standardization, Interoperability and Quality” Sven Gedicke and his team are developing “Light-weight algorithms for in-field data quality assessment in agricultural science”. A long term – comprehensibly explained by Sven Gedicke in our new interview. Enjoy reading and watching his presentation on DIGICROP 2025.
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A new Use Case has started on August 1st
We did already announce it – in the second round of “Use Case Calls”, 11 applications for use case projects and a further 5 for use case pilots were submitted. Following completion of the review process, two use cases with a strong inter-consortial and interdisciplinary focus will be funded in this round, one of which
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Ready for testing: The FAIRagro Search Hub is online!
What is the FAIRagro Search Hub? It brings together data sets from the various areas of agricultural systems research (primarily plants, soil and the environment). The aim is to promote the implementation of the FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) in the field of agricultural research. The Search Hub is not a repository of
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FAIRagro Plenary 2025 – Save the Date!
We are looking forward to our annual FAIRagro project meeting from September 29 to October 1, 2025 – especially to a face-to-face reunion with all project stakeholders. We will show and discuss our project progress through posters or live demos, prepare dynamic breakout sessions on key topics of our consortium and there will be internal
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NFDI Talk with Björn Usadel – now on Video
As part of the “NFDI Talk” series of events, Björn Usadel (TA 4 – Infrastructure Services) presented the exciting topic of FAIR Digital Objects on July 21 at 4 pm: FAIR Digital Objects – infrastructure agnostic research data life cycle in agro system sciences. For all those who missed it or were otherwise busy, here
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Save the Date: Community Summit 2026
We are looking forward to the next FAIRagro Community Summit on March 5 and 6, 2026 (lunch to lunch) in Frankfurt/Main on the premises of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN). We will present our current services, let you test them and discuss them, talk about the progress of our use cases and what we
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Meeting of DSSC and SLU in Uppsala / Sweden
The Research Data Management (RDM) teams from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), ZALF, and FAIRagro continued their exchange on best practices in RDM and met for three days in Uppsala, Sweden, in June. The goal was to reflect on their own work, explore new approaches, and further define future collaboration. ZALF/FAIRagro and SLU
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MSc scholarship available in the agriRDM project
The agriRDM project is a collaborative initiative between Teagasc and University College Dublin(UCD) in Ireland, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, and ZALF(Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) in Germany. This project aims to enhanceRDM uptake in the agri-food research community by understanding the human factors behinddata management practices. By examining how researchers
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FAIRagro presentation at BiodiversiTea
Once a month our partners from NFDI4Biodiversity are hosting the Coffee Lecture series “BiodiversiTea”: a forum for presenting and discussing work, projects, tools and topics. An open round for everyone who is interested in finding out about and exchanging information on current developments and topics relating to biodiversity data. At the May edition our FAIRagro
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This has been FAIRagro Talk Vol.4
On June 16, Lorenz Schmidt and Günter Filler from FAIRagro Participant Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gave us an insight into the tasks and the state of affairs of Use Case 12: “Linking Agrosystem Data with Socio-Economic Information (LASI)”. The title: Farmland Data – Structures, Challenges and FAIR Principles Did you miss the appointment? Or do you