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Group Status: CoP Established

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status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Imma Subirats Coll, Cynthia Parr, Debora Drucker, Valeria Pesce, Suchith Anand

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The Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice, formerly called The Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), came to life in Gothenburg (Göteborg, Sweden) in 2013 at the beginning of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and has since grown to include over 260 registered members, from across continents. IGAD is a domain-oriented interest group working on all issues related to food and agricultural data. It represents stakeholders in managing data for food and agricultural research and innovation, including producing, aggregating and consuming data.

 

Beyond this, IGAD promotes good practices and RDA Recommendations in the research domain, including data sharing policies, data management plans, and data interoperability. As a forum for sharing experiences and providing visibility to research and work in food and agricultural data, IGAD has become a space for networking and blending ideas related to data management and interoperability. It also provides fertile ground to reach out and promote projects among other international organizations and institutions working in food and agricultural research and innovation. On a logistical level, one of IGAD’s chief roles is to serve as a platform that leads to the creation of domain-specific Working Groups.

 

For more information on why IGAD should transition to become the “Improving Global Agricultural Data” Community of Practice, described further in the “Objectives” section. Benefits and alignment with RDA goals are described below under the Value Proposition section. 2. User scenario(s) or use case(s) the CoP wishes to address

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IGAD has become the Improving Global Agricultural Data Community of Practice.

Formed in 2013, since its inception the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) has grown in community strength to over 200 members, becoming one of the RDA’s most prominent Thematic Groups.

 

IGAD is a domain-oriented group working on all issues related to global agriculture data. It represents stakeholders in managing data for agricultural research and innovation, including producing, aggregating and consuming data.

 

Beyond this IGAD promotes good practices in research with regard data sharing policies, data management plans, and data interoperability, and it is a forum for sharing experience and providing visibility to research and work in agricultural data.

 

One of IGAD’s main roles is to serve as a platform that leads to the creation of domain-specific Working Groups. To date, five successful Working Groups (WGs) have been formed under IGAD, these are: Wheat Data Interoperability, Rice Data Interoperability, AgriSemantics, On-Farm Data Sharing and Capacity Development for Agricultural Data WGs. The groups play an active role at the RDA Plenaries.

 

Objectives

  • To promote good practices in the research domain: data sharing policies, data management plan, data interoperability
  • To provide a platform for networking and cross-fertilization of research ideas in data management and interoperability
  • To solicit and promote interactions and projects among the major international institutions and groups worldwide which work on agricultural research and innovation
  • To achieve data interoperability

 

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Events at RDA Plenaries

 

The RDA holds its plenary meetings every six months at different locations around the world. Built around the RDA Working and Interest Group meetings the sessions are designed to consolidate the RDA’s work and that of its interest groups in building social and technological bridges towards open data sharing. IGAD’s role since its inception at the RDA Gothenburg has expanded with every successive Plenary. The outcomes of the Wheat Data Interoperability Group have proved to be a success and the challenge is now on to replicate those successes with other groups, e.g. the Rice Group.

IGAD has used the Plenary meetings as a place to reach out and forge new alliances with other groups, as well as creating new offshoot groups aimed at specific solutions. During Plenary sessions IGAD has hosted a wide array of speakers and discussions and it continues to work alongside major international initiatives among others.

 

RDA Webinar Series on Agriculture

 

At the last IGAD/RDA Plenary Meeting 14 at the University of Helsinki (Finland), the IGAD community agreed to start a webinar series to enable high quality presentations and discussions to happen even if we cannot all be together in person at RDA. The Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) exists to facilitate coordination and progress among a community of international data experts. These webinars will allow us keep up with cutting edge developments in agricultural data, and will encourage the free flow of ideas.

  • Title: Global Long-term Experiments in Agriculture Network (GLTEN) Metadata Portal

Date: 20 November, 2019

Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llxMwjhRKpk&feature=emb_logo 

More information: http://aims.fao.org/capacity-development/webinars/rda-webinar-series-agriculture-%E2%80%98global-long-term-experiments

 

  • Title: Mobilizing Capacity Development for Bridging the Digital Divide in Agriculture

Date: 12 December, 2019

Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfFRtOkuOo&feature=emb_logo

More information: http://aims.fao.org/capacity-development/webinars/rda-webinar-series-agriculture-mobilizing-capacity-development

 

  • Title: Collaborative Open Plant Omics (COPO): Extending the frontiers of “FAIR” Data in Agriculture

Date: 12 February, 2020

Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yqyFo_Ms0&feature=emb_logo

More information: http://aims.fao.org/capacity-development/webinars/copo-extending-frontiers-data 

 

  • Title: The update of agricultural ontologies in Japan - Agricultural Activity Ontology and Crop Vocabulary

Date: 24 March, 2020

Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=244&v=C8Z3YWqp2Vs&feature=emb_logo 

More information: http://aims.fao.org/capacity-development/webinars/rdaigad-webinar-series-update-agricultural-ontologies-japan

 

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March
2023

The Importance of Data Ethics in Research and Education

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues We are living in a digitally transformed society. Data drives problem solving and better decision making. While the digital revolution has transformed the way we live, solving many issues; it has also given rise to numerous questions and challenges which affect everyone. What governance policies and frameworks are needed to make sure digital technologies and opportunities are available for everyone and there are no monopolies created? How do we make sure there are proper governance mechanisms in place to embed values in all data ecosystems?
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31
March
2023

Artificial Intelligence: UNESCO calls on all Governments to implement Global Ethical Framework without delay

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues This call from UNESCO might be of interest. Details below Following calls by over 1000 tech workers this week for a pause in the training of the most powerful AI systems, including Chat GPT, UNESCO calls on countries to fully implement its Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence immediately. This global normative framework, adopted unanimously by the 193 Member States of the Organization, provides all the necessary safeguards.
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28
March
2023

IGAD liaisons 5th meeting

by Piotr Zaborowski

Dear All, As agreed last time here are the slots proposed for the next meeting: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/bqQOnJrb Hope we can find something, still. Please vote until Thursday EOD any timezone. As long as I understood anything from the P20 meeting: * we need more time to discuss topics of high interest. * It can be RDA Anniversary event – BTW the next months after June are also somehow relevant for agriculture
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21
March
2023

75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - an impetus to combat racism

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues,  Today (March 21st) is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Details at  https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-racism-day 
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19
March
2023

Open Letter on “Racism in UK Universities”

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues I came across the following articles The Guardian article that Anti-Slavery Society was founded 200 years ago (in 1823)  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/30/britain-abolition-...  UK universities are institutionally racist, says leading vice-chancellor
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16
March
2023

IGAD Community of Practice Session at RDA's 20th Plenary

by Debora Drucker

Dear colleagues   Our CoP session at RDA's 20th Plenary: "Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice First Steps and Way Forward" will take place on Tuesday 23rd at 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 7.  
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28
February
2023

The Importance of Data Ethics in Research and Education

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues We are living in a digitally transformed society. Data drives problem solving and better decision making. While the digital revolution has transformed the way we live, solving many issues; it has also given rise to numerous questions and challenges which affect everyone. What governance policies and frameworks are needed to make sure digital technologies and opportunities are available for everyone and there are no monopolies created? How do we make sure there are proper governance mechanisms in place to embed values in all data ecosystems?
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25
February
2023

Report of the First G20 Education Working Group (EdWG) Meeting

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues The theme of India’s G20 Presidency - “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth · One Family · One Future” - is drawn from the ancient Sanskrit text of the Maha Upanishad. Essentially, the theme affirms the value of all life – human, animal, plant, and microorganisms – and their interconnectedness on the planet Earth and in the wider universe. Details at https://www.g20.org/en/ The summary of the First G20 Education Working Group (EdWG) Meeting is available at 
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21
February
2023

FAIR-IMPACT Call for Champions

by Sophie Aubin

Dear colleagues, We are still looking for a FAIR Champion on Agriculture and related areas ! Call to join the Group of EOSC FAIR Champions! Apply till 10 March! Are FAIR policy & practices within your expertise? Do you have communication skills? Does it excite the idea of mobilising others to generate more FAIR data? FAIR-IMPACT gives you room to boost the sharing of FAIR data best practices across different disciplines, by joining the group of EOSC FAIR Champions.
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21
February
2023

Presentations from the United Nations Open Science Conference

by Suchith Anand

Dear colleagues The links to the presentations of the 3rd United Nations Open Science Conference, “Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals, Democratizing the Record of Science” are available at https://www.un.org/library/OS23  Thank you to all speakers and participants for sharing their knowledge and experience. Special thanks to the organisers of the conference. The facility provided to  join the conference online helped hundreds of colleagues from around the world to participate in the conference. 
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