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Brick by brick – FAIRagro at Landscape 2024
The “Landscape 2024” conference is taking place at the Erwin Schrödinger Center at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 17 to 19 September. International experts are coming together to discuss research into the transformation of agricultural landscapes under the title “Agroecosystems in Transition: Visions, Technologies and Actors”. The aim is to develop a clear vision, innovative technologies…
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Meeting of FAIRagro TA 3 in Bonn
On September 5 and 6, the second annual TA3 meeting took place at the University of Bonn. The aim of TA3 is to facilitate the reuse, quality checking and annotation of research data. The focus of the meeting was on the exchange of information between Measures employees on central topics such as the findability of…
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No copyright, no problem? The consequences of incorrect citation
An article by Lea Sophie Singson, Legal Data Steward at FAIRagro, Lea-Sophie.Singson@fiz-Karlsruhe.de The CC-BY license is probably the license most frequently applied to research data when the author is concerned about attribution. However, many people are unaware that this license can only be granted to works protected by copyright. This has already been discussed in…
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Survey: “The Gollum Effect”
Is legal uncertainty a reason for the hoarding of data treasures? In this survey, we would like to find out more about the experiences, expectations, concerns and wishes regarding the publication and re-use of research data in the field of agricultural sciences and agricultural research. The responsible handling, accessibility and re-use of research data has…
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FAIRagro Community Summit – all contributions are now online
It took place on Monday 17 June and Tuesday 18 June – the first Community Summit. More than 120 interested people from the large FAIRagro community came to Berlin-Mitte to find out about the FAIRagro consortium and the progress made last year and this year, to get to know the FAIRagro services and to exchange…
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Save the date: FAIRagro Plenary on 13. – 15.11.2024
After the successful FAIRagro Kickoff last year, the annual project meeting will take place as “FAIRagro Plenary 2024” in November. We invite all FAIRagro employees, PIs, participants and potential new use case partners to attend. The event will take place from 13 November to 15 November, luch-to-lunch. The aim and focus of the meeting is…
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Unity and justice and (academic) freedom:
Why it is more than just a sentence on paper “Funding affair at the Ministry of Education” – These or similar headlines have been staring at us like flashing lights in the press recently. When people have been made aware of the above-mentioned situation, they were justifiably outraged. It was all started by an email…
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RDM Training for researchers at Martin Luther University Halle
Successful cooperation with the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt „The workshop was on-point, most relevant topics and issues were discussed“ , „Provide a lot of information via links exercises and groups”, “The use and application of zoom tools and technology was very good” – some of the opinions from participants in the RDM-training on…
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Data quality?! – No time, no idea, no desire…
Results of the FAIRagro survey on data quality Why data quality? In the age of modern agriculture, the amount of digital data is increasing every day. As a result, precise and reliable data is playing an increasingly important role and the topic of data quality is moving further into focus. But what exactly is data…
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1st FAIRagro Use Case Call – application deadline expired
The first FAIRagro call for new use cases was open until 6 p.m. on 5 July – it offered the opportunity to tackle previously unaddressed challenges and disciplines in agricultural systems research and beyond by including new use cases. We are delighted with the interest and the applications received. The selection of new use cases…
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Use Case 6: Status and outlook
The FAIRagro Use Case 6 enables the combination of existing data with real-time data from sensors in the field and thus implements scientific workflows that integrate different data sources and enable advanced modelling applications. In this way, the practical possibilities of FAIR research data can be grasped and experienced. Find out where the Use Case…
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Why not only data, but also groups of people are to be protected
Sharing is CAREing – now more than just „Goodwill“: Trust is good, legal certainty is better. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) thought so too. On May 24, 2024, it enshrined elements of the CARE principles in an international treaty for the first time. Here I explain why this is a significant step in international…