Streamlining Pest and Disease data UC3 Action 2: Towards improved FAIRness

Use Case 3 aims at improving pest and disease related research data management in order to enable a more effective integrated pest management. 3 Actions have been specified, out of which Action 2 is addressed here: Establish inventory for and improve accessibility of IPM related data.

Local database systems are widely used by federal and regional research organisations for the collection and processing of pest and disease related data. These data are generally of high quality, given its standardized experimental design and uniform data structure. To date, no central search index exists, which would summarize the data of the 15 to 20 local, independant database instances. Thus, research data is not easily findable and accessible.  Within Action2, standard output queries are developed to export metadata sets or entire data sets into a newly developed, central database.