The 13th Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD), that focused on IGAD/RDA Recommendations: Implementing Good Practices in Agriculture, took place in Helsinki on 22 October. 
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/presentations-available-igad-meeting-during-rda-14th-plenary
Those of you who missed the Meeting will be happy to know that we have published on F1000 Research, the presentations held at IGAD this year.

Chinese agricultural thesaurus and its application on data Sharing & interoperability. Xuefu Zhang, Guojian Xian , Jingchao Fan , Yuantao Kou
COPO: Extending the frontiers of “FAIR” data in agriculture. Rob Davey, Anthony Etuk, Felix Shaw
Towards FAIR food systems Data: fostering implementation. Ben Schaap, Sophie Aubin
The global long-term agriculture experiments network metadata platform. Richard Ostler
The Agrisemantics recommendations to improve data interoperability in agriculture. Caterina Caracciolo, Sophie Aubin , Brandon Whitehead
Grassroots: An infrastructure for sharing services & data. Xingdong Bian, Simon Tyrrell, Robert P. Davey
Enabling data access to support innovation in decision agriculture related to soil health, agronomy and fertilizer. Pauline L’Hénaff, Kathryn Reynolds
The update of Japanese agriculture ontologies – crop vocabulary (CVO). Sungmin Joo , Hideaki Takeda, Akane Takezaki, Tomokazu Yoshida
Intelligent plant data linkage: a view from history, philosophy and social studies of science. Sabina Leonelli
Developing best practice principles for Ag Data: Australian case study. Leanne Wiseman, Jay Sanderson
Improving agricultural data management practices: raising the bar together. Cynthia Parr
GODAN Action. Pauline L’Hénaff
How Agriculture DWG of OGC and IGAD RDA can cooperate on Agriculture Interoperability. Karel Charvat