The Rice Data Interoperability Working Group

The Rice Research Data Interoperability Working Group aims to reinforce synergies between rice research & development organizations to support food security, nutritional value and safety while taking into account societal demands for sustainable and resilient agricultural production systems.

The aim of the Rice Data Interoperability WG is to provide a framework based on community-accepted standards, which ensure data analysis and data integration facilities. Such a framework is a great asset for the rice community to provide the analysis functions and other services expected by the researchers. Linking databases, platforms and big data from different stakeholder organizations could be helpful for thousands of rice research organizations across the globe especially in Asia and Africa. The Rice Data Interoperability WG in collaboration with partners will work towards bridging the gaps in free data sharing and interoperability of rice research data.

The proposed common framework will help describing, representing linking and publishing rice data with respect to open standards. Such a framework will promote and sustain rice data sharing, reusability and operability. Like the Wheat WG, Rice WG also will try to address questions: which (minimal) metadata to describe rice data? Which vocabularies/ontologies/formats? Which good practices?