Just published – WorldFAIR Agricultural Biodiversity Standards, Best Practices and Guidelines Recommendations for plant-pollinator interactions

One of many tasks through which I’m presently concerned is the WorldFAIR venture. Funded by the European Fee, WorldFAIR is exploring how one can make information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable – throughout a spread of various disciplines within the sciences and humanities.

My involvement is particularly with Work Bundle 10, which is concentrated on information requirements for plant-pollinator interactions, significantly as they relate to pollination of agricultural crops.

I’m delighted to say that the second deliverable from that work – a set of requirements, finest practices and tips suggestions – is now out there at no cost obtain for those who comply with the hyperlink on this reference:

Drucker, D., Salim, J. A., Poelen, J., Soares, F. M., Gonzalez-Vaquero, R. A., Ollerton, J., Devoto, M., Rünzel, M., Robinson, D., Kasina, M., Taliga, C., Parr, C., Cox-Foster, D., Hill, E., Maues, M. M., Saraiva, A. M., Agostini, Ok., Carvalheiro, L. G., Bergamo, P., … Trekels, M. (2024) WorldFAIR (D10.2) Agricultural Biodiversity Requirements, Finest Practices and Pointers Suggestions (Model 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666593

Right here’s the primary paragraph of the abstract:

The WorldFAIR Case Research on Agricultural Biodiversity (WP10) addresses the challenges of advancing interoperability and mobilising plant-pollinator interactions information for reuse. Earlier efforts, reported in Deliverable 10.1 – from our discovery part – supplied an outline of tasks, finest practices, instruments, and examples for creating, managing and sharing information associated to plant-pollinator interactions, together with a piece plan for conducting pilot research. The present report presents the outcomes from the pilot part of the Case Research, which concerned six pilot research adopting requirements and suggestions from the invention part. The pilots enabled the dealing with  of concrete examples and the era of reusable supplies tailor-made to this area, in addition to offering higher estimates for the general prices of adoption for future tasks.