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| Stulberg, Brouder, and Schescke |
CAST's new
commentary, Enabling Open-source Data Networks in Public Agricultural Research,
focuses on promoting the conversation among agricultural science partners to
create a system that encourages data sharing--and the cooperative science
needed to address the complex, challenging issues facing global food
production.
Task Force Chair Sylvie
Brouder (Purdue) presented key material from the publication at three rollouts:
an NC-FAR lunch and learn seminar for House staffers, an NC-FAR seminar for
Senate staffers, and a presentation at the Association of Public and Land-grant
Universities (APLU).
As Brouder points out, it might be a case of “small science”
transitioning to “big science.” Much of the process
comes down to collecting, sharing, and analyzing. In the commentary, the authors
examine the need for (1) developing data-sharing standards, (2) incentivizing
researchers to share data, and (3) building a data-sharing infrastructure within
agricultural research.
Elizabeth
Stulberg (The Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies)
helped facilitate the APLU gathering, and she joined a panel discussion, along
with Cynthia Parr (USDA/ARS) and Robin Schoen (The National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). As CAST EVP Kent Schescke said, "The
paper points toward the importance of planning up front to share data through
open-source networks--and the importance of agricultural scientists working
with data and information scientists to purposely collect, describe, and share data."
The publication includes insights about current
situations and possible scenarios to facilitate the process--with an ultimate
goal of the publication being the advancement of the conversation among
agricultural science partners to create a system conducive to data sharing and
the team science needed to address the "grand challenges" in
modern-day food production.
Access the full paper here and the Ag quickCAST here.
by Dan Gogerty (photos from Tom Van Arsdall)
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