The FAIRagro Helpdesk: Your partner in agricultural RDM
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The FAIRagro Helpdesk is your trusted first-line partner in the agricultural research community. We accompany researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle, providingexpert support for everything from crafting a data management plan to harmonizing complex geospatial and phenotyping data, and ensuring FAIR publication, legalcompliance and sustainable reuse.
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Paul Peschel (Julius Kühn-Institut), Elena Rey Mazón (IPK Gatersleben), Wahib Sahwan (Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung ZALF e.V.), Marcus Schmidt (Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung ZALF e.V.), Lea Singson (FIZ Karlsruhe), Nikolai Svoboda (Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung ZALF e.V.), Lucia Vedder (Universität Bonn) The FAIRagro Helpdesk: Your partner in agricultural RDM The FAIRagro Helpdesk is your trusted first-line partner in the agricultural research community. We accompany researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle, providing expert support for everything from crafting a data management plan to harmonizing complex geospatial and phenotyping data, and ensuring FAIR publication, legal compliance and sustainable reuse. ! Beyond the Helpdesk - Our Strategic Initiatives In addition to direct support we empower the community through three key areas: •Community Support: We help the community find fitting repositories and resources on how to learn and teach Research Data Management (RDM) •Training Support: We offer experts to assist in planning and conducting RDM trainings and workshops. We also collaborate with the FAIRagro training measure and develop training content based on community needs •Networking: We engage with the agrosystem community at conferences and workshops to build a national and international network Agricultural RDM Challenges - Solved Based on our most frequent requests, we provide targeted solutions and many more: ! •Strategic Project Support: Starting a new research project? We accompany researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle, from planning to creation •Metadata & Standards: We help align your data with discipline-specific standards and ontologies like MIAPPE, AgroVOC, and ISO19115 to ensure it is discoverable and reusable •Law & Ethics: Navigating data sharing agreements or licensing? We provide guidance on topics from GDPR to data licensing (e.g., CC, CC BY, OSS,..) Plant Breeding Elena Lea Law & Ethics Farming 4.0 Lucia Coordination Marcus Geodata Paul Wahib Data Publication Status date: 2025-09-25 Tickets (total) 168 Closed tickets 132 External Institutions 42 The Impact - By the Numbers Number of tickets per state Number of tickets per subject Monthly distribution of tickets by category fairagro.net/helpdesk fairagro.net/services/toolbox knowledgebase.fairagro.net Just Released : FAIRagro Knowledge Base The!FAIRagro Knowledge Base!is the central resource for questions, guides, tools, and legal issues in research data management (RDM) for the!agrosystem research community.