The Research Data Alliance and Agriculture

With over 10,000 members from 145 countries, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) provides a neutral space to develop and adopt infrastructure that promotes data-sharing and data-driven research to enable the open sharing and re-use of data. RDA has a grass roots, inclusive approach covering all data lifecycle stages, engaging data producers, users and stewards, addressing data exchange, processing, and storage. Generic topics of its interest are social hurdles on data sharing, education and training challenges, data management plans and certification of data repositories, disciplinary and interdisciplinary interoperability, as well as technological aspects.

The RDA is constituted of different elements, including Working Groups (WG) and Interest Groups (IG), some of which of particular interest in agriculture:

• Agrisemantics WG
• Agricultural Data IG
• Capacity Development for Agriculture Data WG
• Geospatial IG
• Engaging Researchers with Data IG
• Data Type Registries WG
• FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
• Metadata Standards Catalog WG
• Rice Data Interoperability WG
• Research Data Repository Interoperability WG
• Wheat Data Interoperability WG