Dear AgBioData Community,

*Passionate about teaching, training, or improving agricultural research data practices? **This one is for you!*

The AgBioData Consortium is launching a new Education & Training Working Group https://www.agbiodata.org/working_groups/edu-training.

Building on the success of the original Education Working Group—which developed the AgBioData Curriculum for teaching FAIR data practices https://zenodo.org/records/14278084—we are expanding our efforts to create more accessible, practical, and community-driven training resources for researchers, educators, students, and database professionals. This next phase will focus on:

- Identifying AgBioData community training needs and priorities. - Updating the AgBioData curriculum for diverse audiences. - Developing a structured AgBioData certification program. - Creating online training modules on bioinformatics data management, reporting, publication, and data submission best practices.

Participation requires approximately 2 hours per month for meetings, plus flexible offline contributions based on your interests and availability.

By joining this working group, you will:

- Help shape the future of AgBioData education and training. - Earn authorship on publications, training modules, and other community outputs. - Contribute your expertise in ways that fit your interests and schedule. - Connect with a multidisciplinary network of researchers, educators, curators, and database professionals.

Interested in joining? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/CLKYAuyrDxqQtiRG7

If you have any questions, please contact Jodi at jhumann@wsu.edu.

We hope you’ll join us in building the next generation of FAIR data education resources for the agricultural genomics community.

Kind regards,

Marcela On behalf of the AgBioData Steering Committee