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We are hiring!
As part of our consortium, the JKI is looking for a Geodata Quality Analyst in the “Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence” team in the lush surroundings of beautiful Kleinmachnow just on the Berlin city limits. If you enjoy meaningful work in an interdisciplinary environment, have already dealt with agriculturally relevant geodata and enjoy working in a…
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Successful TA 4 retreat 2024 in Braunschweig
On November 25 and 26, this year’s annual retreat of FAIRagro Task Area 4 “Infrastructure Services” took place at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig under the leadership of Matthias Lange. Representatives from the four other task areas in the consortium and from the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau,…
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We love harvesting – why is that?
Many people wonder why we at FAIRagro love harvesting so much according to our slogan (“We love harvesting”). Carsten Hoffmann, PI and Project Manager from our TA5, explains: “This slogan is a play on words. Of course, harvesting crops is an essential and endearing part of agriculture. But the process of “harvesting” is also common…
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University of Rostock is our new participant!
We are delighted that the German Research Foundation (Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG) has approved the inclusion of the University of Rostock as a new participant in the FAIRagro consortium. The University of Rostock is not only the 20th participant in FAIRagro, but also the first institution from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to take part – bringing the total…
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FAIRagro at the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe in Barcelona from 4 to 8.11.2024
“The goal is to create code that addresses challenges in bioinformatics research” In early November, the annual BioHackathon Europe brought together over 180 life scientists from all over the world on site (and another 140 online) to work on exciting projects in just under a week. The goal: to create code that addresses the challenges…
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FAIRagro Plenary from November 13-15, 2024 in Berlin
We’ve been looking forward to it for a long time – and now it is already history again: the FAIRagro Plenary 2024 took place. This event was all about our personal collaboration: we had exciting poster sessions with current insights into the work of the Measures, lively breakout sessions on important topics and inspiring keynotes,…
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Register now: Symposium on “Linked Data in the Age of Generative AI” on 12 and 13 December
FAIRagro, the BfR, KIDA and NFDI4Health are organizing a symposium on “Linked Data in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence – New Perspectives or Outdated Vision? ” from December 12-13, 2024 at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin and cordially invite all interested parties. Further information can be found in this flyer and…
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Data documentation and science karma (2)
How to make your research fit for others A contribution by Jannes Uhlott and Sophie Boße – Part 2 In the first part of the article, Sophie and Jannes explained what data quality is all about and why it is worth documenting your data as well as possible and providing it with quality information –…
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Podcast “Agrar aufs Ohr” with FAIRagro
The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen publishes the podcast “Agrar aufs Ohr” as part of its “AgrarDebatten” blog, which is well worth listening to. In the latest episode, FAIRagro colleagues Dr. Anne Sennhenn and Dr. Marcus Schmidt were guests and discussed the relevance of good research data management: What is…
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Use Case 3: Status and outlook
The FAIRagro Use Case 3 aims to provide an integrated decision support tool for crop protection that takes into account the potential yield loss and environmental risk of pesticide use. The interplay of ongoing genetic adaptation of crops, changes in agricultural management, climatic changes, landscape impacts and the evolution of crop protection and pest management…
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FAIRagro at the International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics
At the International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (https://www.imbio.de/ib2024) at the University of Zurich, Jorge Garcia-Brizuela from FAIRAgro partner IPK presented the recently published paper on FAIRagro middleware (https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2024-0027) to a panel of interdisciplinary international bioinformaticians on behalf of the FAIRagro collaborators. The discussion centred on the FAIRagro middleware as a central access point for the…
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Data documentation and science karma (1)
How to make your research fit for others A contribution by Jannes Uhlott and Sophie Boße – Part 1 There is a lot of data out there – but which has the quality I need? The advantages of data quality information are enormous. The data is reliable and users can assess for themselves whether the…