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Group Session November 22, 2025

IGAD Community of Practice: Fostering adoption of RDA’s ag-related outputs

Plenary: RDA 26th Plenary Meeting (VP26)

Submitted by
Cynthia Parr
Recording

Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:

Open session notes

For Plenary 26, we aim to continue to foster community with new and old members, update the community on activities related to working groups in progress and in development, and provide updates on the 2026 webinar series. The main focus will be to discuss how the CoP can improve adoption of RDA products.

Meeting presenters

Cynthia Parr, Piotr Zaborowski, Alan Moss, David Molik, Christopher J. O. Baker, Filipi Miranda-Soares

Meeting agenda

Introductions (10 mins) (Cynthia Parr)

Webinar series update (5 mins) (Piotr Zaborowski)

Report from the Agricultural Data Ethics Working Group (10 mins) (Alan Moss)

Update on potential working groups (15 minutes)

  • Agricultural Research Data Integrity Working Group (David Molik)
  • AI in Agriculture (Filipi Miranda-Soares)

Discussion on the state of adoption of RDA outputs related to agriculture (50 minutes)

  • Agrisemantics (Christopher Baker)
  • Wheat interoperability
  • Other relevant RDA outputs
  • Discussion & next steps

Target audience

Current IGAD members, e.g. the global agricultural research data community, and those from other disciplines that are related to agriculture, such as earth and space science, social sciences, public health and nutrition. Current and future participants in any RDA working groups interested in agricultural use cases.

Group Activities and Scope

IGAD serves a wide variety of data scientists, librarians, and researchers in the agricultural domain. It seeks to be responsive to community needs. We connect members to appropriate Research Data Alliance groups and foster development and engagement of working groups relevant to agricultural enterprise. We are particularly interested in participation and ideas that cross existing geographic and disciplinary siloes.

Additional links to informative material

https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/agricultural-data-integrity-wg/activity

https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/ethics-in-agricultural-ag-data-wg/activity

Short Group Status

Established as an Interest Group in 2013 with Plenary 2, IGAD became the first RDA Community of Practice in 2022.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
Data Infrastructures and Environments - Discipline Focused
Ethical data

Avoid conflict with the following groups

Sensitive Data Interest Group

What potential collaborations or synergies do you see between your Group/Birds of a Feather session topic and other RDA Groups or external organisations?

Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data
Geospatial IG
Social and Economic Statistics
Ethics in Agricultural (Ag) Data WG
Ethics and Social Aspects of Data IG
Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation (AIDV) WG

Please indicate at least (3) three breakout slots that would suit your meeting.

Breakout 4. Tuesday, 17 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 7. Wednesday, 18 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 10. Thursday, 19 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC