1000FARMS - Video of Webinar 24 - Kauê de Sousa

Click on the link below to view the webinar by Kauê de Sousa from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT on 7 May 2026 entitled Improving FAIR and Interoperable Metadata in ClimMob.

Presenter Bio: Kauê de Sousa is a Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, specialising in citizen science, agrobiodiversity, climate adaptation, and digital solutions for agriculture. He has played a leading role in developing the tricot approach and digital tools such as ClimMob to support decentralized on-farm trials globally.

Contact Kauê at k.desousa@cgiar.org

Summary of presentation: Kauê introduced significant updates to ClimMob’s metadata registration system, designed to improve the interoperability, documentation quality, and FAIRness — Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability — of tricot datasets. He explained the rationale behind the redesigned metadata framework, the changes users can expect, and how the new system will support better long-term data sharing, publication, and reuse.