Governing agricultural data: Challenges and recommendations

dc.creatorDevare, Medha
dc.creatorArnaud, Elizabeth
dc.creatorAntezana, Erick
dc.creatorKing, Brian
dc.date2023
dc.date2022-12-13T14:23:39Z
dc.date2022-12-13T14:23:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:10:28Z
dc.descriptionThe biomedical domain has shown that in silico analyses over vast data pools enhances the speed and scale of scientific innovation. This can hold true in agricultural research and guide similar multi-stakeholder action in service of global food security as well (Streich et al. Curr Opin Biotechnol 61:217–225. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2020.01.010, 2020). However, entrenched research culture and data and standards governance issues to enable data interoperability and ease of reuse continue to be roadblocks in the agricultural research for development sector. Effective operationalization of the FAIR Data Principles towards Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data requires that agricultural researchers accept that their responsibilities in a digital age include the stewardship of data assets to assure long-term preservation, access and reuse. The development and adoption of common agricultural data standards are key to assuring good stewardship, but face several challenges, including limited awareness about standards compliance; lagging data science capacity; emphasis on data collection rather than reuse; and limited fund allocation for data and standards management. Community-based hurdles around the development and governance of standards and fostering their adoption also abound. This chapter discusses challenges and possible solutions to making FAIR agricultural data assets the norm rather than the exception to catalyze a much-needed revolution towards “translational agriculture”.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125916
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/96728
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDevare, M.; Arnaud, E.; Antezana, E.; King, B. (2022) Governing agricultural data: Challenges and recommendations. In: Williamson, H.F.; Leonelli, S. (eds) Towards responsible plant data linkage: Data challenges for agricultural research and development. Cham (Switzerland): Springer. 22 p. Online first (27 October 2022). ISBN: 978-3-031-13276-6
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectdata
dc.subjectstandards
dc.subjectinteroperability
dc.subjectdata management
dc.subjectgobernanza
dc.subjectagricultura
dc.subjectnormas
dc.subjectdatos
dc.titleGoverning agricultural data: Challenges and recommendations
dc.typeBook Chapter

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