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The National Agricultural Library hosted a conference and workshops on June 7-9, 2022 to wrap up a three-year collaboration with the University of Florida on a NIFA-funded project titled Agricultural Research Data Network for Modeling and Analytics (ARDN).

The goal of the project was to increase interoperability and re-use of publicly available datasets by the crop modeling community. The ARDN team developed tools and protocols to annotate research data with a common vocabulary, such as ICASA. This annotated data can then be easily aggregated and re-used in models and other quantitative analyses. Annotated datasets created during this project can be found on the ARDN program page on the Ag Data Commons.

To learn more about ARDN and how their tools can help make data more re-usable, you can view selected presentations from the conference on NAL’s YouTube channel.

To comply with federal mandates, two-factor authentication (2FA) is now required to log into the Ag Data Commons.

2FA adds an extra layer of protection to keep your information secure. Each time you log into the Ag Data Commons with your username and password, you will be prompted to enter a code generated by the Google Authenticator app. If you do not have a smartphone, you can use a windows/palm os/java phone client.

If you have not already set up 2FA for your account, you will be prompted to do so the next time you log in to the Ag Data Commons. A short video walking you through the process is available on YouTube. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at NAL-ADC-Curator@usda.gov.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking public comments on a draft set of desirable characteristics of data repositories used to locate, manage, share, and use data resulting from Federally funded research. The purpose of this effort is to identify and help Federal agencies provide more consistent information on desirable characteristics of data repositories for data subject to agency Public Access Plans and data management and sharing policies. Responses are due by 6 March 2020 -- visit RFC link below: