PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL DATA FROM THE MORROW PLOTS: The Value and Logistics of Preserving a Long-Term Research Experiment

Anderson, Bethany G.; Caldrone, Sandi L.; Henry, Joshua K.; Imker, Heidi J.; Margenot, Andrew J.; Williams, Sarah C.

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Title

PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL DATA FROM THE MORROW PLOTS: The Value and Logistics of Preserving a Long-Term Research Experiment

Author(s)

• Anderson, Bethany G.
• Caldrone, Sandi L.
• Henry, Joshua K.
• Imker, Heidi J.
• Margenot, Andrew J.
• Williams, Sarah C.

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• data
• agriculture
• archives
• curation
• collaboration

Abstract

The Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are the longest-running continuous experimental agricultural fields in the Americas. At iPres 2022 we reported on work to curate, preserve, and visualize planting, treatment, and yield data collected from the plots' nearly 150-year history. This paper provides an update on these efforts over the past year and, with special emphasis on the data’s scientific and cultural value, discusses the importance of collaborative and interdisciplinary work within the Morrow Plots stakeholder community to publish the dataset, and identify necessary next steps.

Series/Report Name or Number

iPRES 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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