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Get Involved with CO-FAIR

Whether you manage an ecotron facility, study soil ecosystems, engineer data systems, or are simply passionate about open science — we want to hear from you.

Opportunities

Ways to Participate

Facility Partners

Operate an ecotron, phytotron, rhizotron, or similar controlled-environment facility? Join the network and help shape interoperability standards.

Researchers

Soil scientists, ecologists, and domain experts can contribute to ontology development, data standards, and cross-site research initiatives.

Data Engineers

Help build the technical infrastructure — APIs, metadata systems, data pipelines, and visualization tools. All development is open source.

Advisory Board

We are recruiting experts in soil science, data management, and FAIR practices to join our External Advisory Board.

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Resources

Documentation & Resources

As the project develops, comprehensive documentation will be published here for community use.

FAIR Standards Guide

A practical guide to implementing FAIR principles for ecotron data, including metadata templates and schema documentation.

Coming Soon
API Documentation

OpenAPI specification and usage guides for the CO-FAIR RESTful APIs, covering data retrieval, metadata harvesting, and more.

Coming Soon
Ecotron Ontology

The common data dictionary and ontology for ecotron research, built on ENVO using RDF/OWL semantic web technologies.

Coming Soon
Training Materials

Workshop presentations, training modules, and tutorials for using the CO-FAIR data platform and tools.

Coming Soon
Data Management Plan

The project's data management plan detailing how data will be collected, stored, shared, and preserved.

Coming Soon
Source Code

All CO-FAIR software is open source under MIT/Apache 2.0 licenses. Contribute to development on GitHub.

Coming Soon
Events

Upcoming Workshops & Meetings

CO-FAIR hosts annual in-person workshops and quarterly virtual meetings to foster collaborative problem-solving and standard refinement.

Annual Ecotron Network Workshop
2026

The inaugural workshop will bring together partners to discuss data standards, present progress, and plan collaborative research. Travel funding available.

Quarterly Virtual Meetings
Ongoing

Regular virtual meetings to share progress, discuss emerging issues, and refine data-sharing protocols. Open to all network participants.