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 in research data management. This describes the “systematic collection and preparation of metadata from databases [] This increases the visibility, findability and reusability of published research data.” (1).
Harvesting therefore involves searching through metadata in databases and offering the searcher a hopefully satisfactory collection of suitable data records for download. We at FAIRagro love both types of harvesting!
(Source: 1 https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Harvesting, 14.2.2024)