Overview

AgriDaRe is an open-access scientific repository designed to store, organize, and facilitate the exchange of primary experimental data in the fields of animal and plant breeding, agricultural microbiology, and related disciplines. The platform supports the ongoing digital transformation of agricultural science by offering an infrastructure for the deposition and retrieval of heterogeneous research data in structured and unstructured formats.

AgriDaRe was created and is maintained by the research team of the Institute of Pig Breeding and Agroindustrial Production of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

 

Motivation and Background

The last decades of scientific and technical development have led to an increased demand for digital access to research data. Internationally recognized databases enable access to highly structured biological data. However, a significant volume of primary data produced in applied agricultural research remains underrepresented in these resources due to their scope limitations and strict data-type requirements. Moreover, bibliometric platforms like Scopus and Web of Science provide only metadata about publications and do not support access to raw experimental data.

This situation creates a gap in data availability, particularly in domains such as animal genetics, breeding programs, and agricultural microbiology. Researchers are often compelled to manually search across scattered sources, journals with paywalls, and supplemental materials that lack standardization or open access. AgriDaRe was developed to address this challenge by providing a unified, open repository for primary agricultural research data.

 

Scope and Structure

AgriDaRe is built to accommodate a wide range of scientific content, particularly data types that are difficult to index in existing biological databases due to their complexity, format, or interdisciplinary character. The repository is organized into four domain-specific sub-repositories:

A – Animal research

P – Plant and fungal research

M – Microorganism-based studies

V – Virology-related research

Each project submitted to AgriDaRe is assigned a five-character alphanumeric identifier, where the first letter corresponds to the relevant subdomain.