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FAIRagro submissions for the EOSC Symposium 2024 – vote now!
The EOSC Symposium 2024 (European Open Science Cloud) will take place in Berlin from 21-23 October. The event programme includes six one-hour sessions (“Unconference Sessions”). FAIRagro has submitted two session abstracts: Both submissions have made it into the top 16 and are open for voting until 26 April – the six sessions with the most…
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1st FAIRagro Community Summit
One of FAIRagro’s most important concerns is direct communication and interaction with our community, which is spread across many disciplines, institutions and organizations. In this way, we understand the respective requirements for optimal research data management, address these and communicate our services, events and the opportunities to participate in FAIRagro. In order to bring the…
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FAIRagro at the DAFA conference in Potsdam
The DAFA Conference “Agricultural Research in Climate Change” took place in Potsdam from March 11 to 14, 2024. Over 550 participants exchanged ideas and information on the current state of science on key topics in the field of agriculture in climate change. In 90 poster presentations and over 100 lectures, it was shown which effects…
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FAIRagro is looking for a Research Software Engineer
As part of the FAIRagro project, the Thünen Institute offers an interesting position as Research Software Engineer. The Thünen Institute leads the Measure 4.4 Scientific Workflow Infrastructure (SciWIn) in the FAIRagro project which is part of the Task Area Infrastructure Services. The integration of data and processes plays an important role in the reproducibility and…
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We love trust – but we prefer certainty of evidence
Why I should put agreements around field experiments in writing. I am standing on a field with the farmer. The rain is pouring down, it’s freezing cold. I explained to him, what kind of measurements I want to collect in the soil of his field and why. I also explained, that the results will be…
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The DSSC is a “success story” within NFDI
With the help of its consortia, the NFDI Association has compiled and published a collection of success stories. The success stories are intended to help make our work more tangible and give visitors a better idea. FAIRagro is involved with the Data Steward Service Center (DSSC) and the Helpdesk. Data Steward Service Center (DSSC) The…
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FAIRagro at the Love Data Week in Potsdam
The “Love Data Week” took place in Potsdam from the 12th to the 16th of February under the motto “My Kind of Data”. Numerous national and international organizations, including many of the consortia organized in the NFDI, offered exciting information events in various formats such as coffee lectures, training courses and podcasts – both online…
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Pseudonymous, anonymous – what is it and what are the consequences?
Discussion of the Verdict of the EuG from 26.04.2023, T-557/20 Let’s say I’m a scientist working with personal data in my day-to-day work. Sooner or later, I will have to ask myself how I can prevent this data from floating around without any protection in the open net space. Most of the time the solution…
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FAIRagro was part of the NFDI-Talk on February 19
On Monday, February 19, 2024, the topic “PID4NFDI – Example Use Cases and Services for NFD” took place as part of the “NFDI Talks” event series. Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are of central importance for FAIR research data management. However, different disciplines and different resources lead to different requirements. PID4NFDI is designing a work program to…
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Upcoming Event: BrAPI Hackathon
The upcoming BrAPI Hackathon will be in Wittenberg, Germany, the week of April 15-19 This is a reminder for everyone who is considering attending the upcoming hackathon: please register and begin planning projects. What is BrAPI? The Breeding API (BrAPI) project is an effort to enable interoperability among plant breeding databases. BrAPI is a standardized…
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Elections to the Community Advisory Board – Nomination period expired
FAIRagro strives to involve the community in the further development towards a FAIR data future in agricultural systems research and to work together with its diverse actors. An important body in this context is the Community Advisory Board (CAB), which will be elected for the first time in spring 2024. We have put together what…
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FAIRagro is leaving X/Twitter
We are stepping away from X/Twitter in favour of platforms that are currently more aligned with our values. Find us on Mastodon, BlueSky or soon on LinkedIn. FAIRagro is dedicated to the core values of Open Science. We value diversity – not only in the data we care about, but also in the conversations we…