Using agricultural metadata: a novel investigation of trends in sowing date in on-farm research trials using the Online Farm Trials database.

ABSTRACT: Background: A growing ability to collect data, together with the development and adoption of the FAIR guiding principles, has increased the amount of data available in many disciplines. This has given rise to an urgent need for robust metadata. Within the Australian grains industry, data from thousands of on-farm research trials (Trial Projects) have been made available via the Online Farm Trials (OFT) website. OFT Trial Project metadata were developed as filters to refine front-end database searches, but could also be used as a dataset to investigate trends in metadata elements. Australian grains crops are being sown earlier, but whether on-farm research trials reflect this change is currently unknown. Methods: We investigated whether OFT Trial Project metadata could be used

SUBMITTER: Walters J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8290206 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature