Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower Agricultural Research Communities
No 4/2012, December
Abstract
The agINFRA project aims to provide the agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data access, sharing and re-use. This paper introduces the project’s objectives and data principles, presents the data resources that are covered, and illustrates agINFRA services with examples from the area of agricultural statistics. Finally, it summarises how agricultural research institutions and other stakeholders can participate in, and benefit from, the project.
Keywords
Agricultural research, agricultural repositories, e-infrastructure, data infrastructure, open access, agricultural statistics.