Where can I find information on agriculture-specific research data management?
FAIRagro mainly deals with subject-specific research data management (RDM) for the agrosystem research community.
For general questions, you can find some useful links to general (generic) RDM content here.
Questions about data handling
In agrosystem research, there is a variety of data types, each with their own specific characteristics in terms of both RDM and legal aspects:
What data types exist in agrosystem science? What do I have to consider when collecting and publishing data - including the legal perspective?
→ Agriculture-specific Data
Different types of data require different repositories:
Where to find a fitting repository?
→ Repositories
Data is often analysed using scientific code, which should also be published FAIR:
How to publish research code FAIR?
→ Publishing Code FAIR
Data documentation and metadata are key elements of FAIR RDM:
What can I do in practice (even without much prior knowledge) to document data/collect metadata?
→ Practical Guide Metadata
Legal issues
You can find an overview of our legal topics here.
Contributors
(Last Update: 2025-12-19)
How to cite this page?
Vedder, L. (2025). RDM Agriculture. FARagro Knowledge Base. https://knowledgebase.fairagro.net/en/rdm/. Under: CC BY 4.0.
