The Open Data Policy Lab, a resource hub from the Governance Lab (GovLab), aims to educate decision-makers on the responsible use of open data and its value through the identification of best practices and initiatives in the field that might be a benefit to society and a significant contribution to the economy.

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission has published in 2018 a cost-benefit analysis for FAIR research data - “Cost of not having FAIR research data”.

The ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community recently published in the New Phytologist journal an article detailing the MIAPPE (Minimum Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment) 1.1 update.

The use of controlled vocabularies in plant data description was presented and discussed in the context of a tutorial given by Inês Chaves (Forest Biotech Lab - iBET/ITQB NOVA) to the PhD students of the ITQB International PhD Program in Plant Sciences “ Plants for Life”.