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6. and 7.12.: FAIRagro Workshop: Data Quality for Data Analytics in Agrosystem Science
6. / 7. December 2023 at University of Bonn: In the domain of agricultural systems, the fusion of mobile sensing, machine learning, and plant phenotyping unlocks far-reaching opportunities for sustainable crop production. With the aim of exploiting these potentials in the best possible way, a quality-assured research data management (RDM) for generating, publishing, and accessing…
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First physical meeting of TA3 in Darmstadt
The KTBL organized the first physical FAIRagro TA3 meeting in Darmstadt. Members of the six measures presented the status quo on the topics of standards,metadata concept development, possible ontology integration, interoperability,tools for ensuring data quality and dealing with legal aspectswere presented. The focus was on networking with one another, theorganization of upcoming milestones and workshops,…
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FAIRagro retreat at IPK Gatersleben – a succesful experience
The Infrastructure Services Task Area (TA4) invited to a retreat at the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben from 6.11. to 7.11.2023. The retreat format was tailored with a focus on building a team with plenty of space for social activities and discussions. To this end, 18 FAIR research data…
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Interesting new FAIRagro job at FZ Jülich
Are you interested in a PhD position to contribute to the success of FAIRagro or do you know someone who would be interested in this challenge? Our co-applicant FZ Jülich offers: PhD Position – FAIR Data for Field Phenotyping – Developing a Data Model for Diverse Field Phenotyping Data. More information can be found directly…
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A Festival for data – FAIRagro at the International Data Week in Salzburg
From October 23 to 26, 2023, the “International Data Week” (IDW) took place in Salzburg at the Salzburg Congress – we from FAIRagro were there. A global community of data science and data management experts, researchers from all fields, data, interoperability and informatics experts, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers gathered in Salzburg between October…
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FAIRagro at the 2nd BioHackathon Germany
After last year’s great success, the 2nd BioHackathon Germany, organized by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI), will take place in Bielefeld from December 11-15, 2023. Among the 11 selected projects from the fields of bioinformatics, life sciences and data management, the project “Increasing FAIRness in agrosystem sciences and plant phenomics” is also an…
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DSSC has published fact sheets on the types of date used in FAIRagro
New! Our FAIRagro DSSC has published fact sheets on the types of data used in FAIRagro in the life sciences repository “Publisso”. The fact sheets introduce data types and provide an overview about typically used data in the agrosystem research community. For soil data, field data in general, genetic data (“omics data”), phenotyping data, field…
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FAIRagro at the bi-annual meeting of GPW at Goettingen
A motivated team from FAIRagro was present at this year’s meeting of the Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften e.V. (GPW) from 4.10. to 6.10.2023. Under the motto “Digital tools, big data, modeling and sensing methods for sustainable and climate smart crop and grassland systems” there were exciting presentations and discussions on the topic of agricultural systems research…
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The results of the election to our new Steering Committee
The scheduled election for the FAIRagro Steering Committee (election period: two years) took place from September 15-22. According to the FAIRagro Governance, four representatives (plus substitutes) were elected by the participating institutions from the following groups: – 2 persons from the group of our Participants, – 1 person from the group of co-applicants and –…
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FAIRagro at the 63rd Conference for Plant Protection
From September 26 to 29, the 63rd German Plant Protection Conference took place in Göttingen – FAIRagro was there with an information booth. More than 800 participants were registered for the “German Plant Protection Confernece” (Deutsche Pflanzenschutztagung) for four days on the campus of the Georg-August-University in Göttingen – with a total of 370 exciting…
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FAIRagro Kickoff and Onboarding on 25. 9.
On September 25, the long-awaited joint kickoff meeting / onboarding finally took place in Berlin. Starting at 10 a.m., everyone was able to get to know each other personally at Quadriga Media’s offices at Werderscher Markt in the heart of Berlin. In addition to entertaining rounds of introductions, during which there was much laughter, it…
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We attented the CoRDI Conference
From 12 to 14 September 2023 the first issue of CoRDI – Conference on Research Data Infrastructure – took place in Kalrsruhe, organized by NFDI e.V. in cooperation with Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy (KIT). Under the theme “Connecting Communities” the conference did focus on establishing interdisciplinary research data management (RDM). Research data form the basis…