V2P2 repository, sharing open agricultural data

Scientists often see the potential offered by Open Research Data, but most are still unready to engage in data archive and curation. One of the main issues that hinders data sharing is related to the lack of incentive mechanisms, both in terms of dedicated budgets and in terms of ready-to-use technical support tools to store, manage and make accessible research data. This situation is detrimental for the scientific community as well as for enterprises and citizens that are supposed to exploit the economic impact of new findings and benefit from the results of publicly-funded research projects, respectively. The project "V2P2 repository" aims at developing a technical solution to ensure a trustworthy e-infrastructure for permanent integrity and re-use of agricultural research data. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to the implementation of an open source repository and briefly describe its architecture, pointing out the main characteristics. Furthermore, the poster describes future developments and approaches to improve the interoperability of the repository and promote data sharing amongst scientists.