Princípios FAIR e Proveniência em repositórios de dados voltados para a Agricultura Digital: um estudo exploratório à luz das Humanidades Digitais

Abstract

Societies always needed to communicate. Records of cave paintings, the emergence of cuneiform writing, use of supports such as papyrus, the appearance of the alphabet, means of communication such as radio, telephone, and television, as well as newspapers and magazines, computers, and, later, the internet, are significant evolutionary leaps in this communication process. In the contemporary world, the huge amount of existing digital information demands organization so that this data is not lost and, at the same time, can be used and validated as safe and credible since many search results are totally dependent on what we can find on the web today. The deluge of data that we are experiencing every day means that today's society is overwhelmed with data that come from everywhere, related to instruments, experiments, people, and social networks. To organize scientific production, Digital Repositories emerge, institutional or thematic ones. In the context of Digital Humanities and their social impacts, this research intends to study the Digital Repository of the OpenSoils platform and the storage of large volums of data in soil security, aiming at sustainable development and the great demands of Digital Agriculture. Digital Humanities can connect with the most digitized sectors of the large agribusiness chain, due to their management practices and data analysis, reverberating in social impacts that agriculture promotes. Considering the interdisciplinary aspect of this research, the social impact promoted by agriculture, and the emergence of Digital Humanities in Brazil, investigating correlations is one of the most important issues. This shall be analyzed in order to understand how the interconnected functioning of these steps in the chain can benefit from this investigation, mainly considering the great efforts in relation to data management related to sustainability and soils - one of the proposals of OpenSoils plataform. Thus, the problem of dispersed information, difficult to be found, accessed, or reused and still without a reliable source, within data repositories in the soil area, is a problem that we investigated. The OpenSoils plataform, with its contributions to more FAIR data and with Data Provenance, can contribute to this solution, from the perspective of Digital Humanities.