Dataset providers’ and users’ perceptions of data sharing: insights from AgYields New Zealand National Database
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https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2026.88.3883Abstract
• Data sharing applications have become a functional necessity to advance smart farming, to assist routine farm management strategies and for environmental compliance.
• An analysis of the database status revealed that 61% of the uploaded datasets are from unpublished sources; of this subset, the majority was collected onfarm (37%), followed by technical reports (30%).
• AgYield users experience revealed that data providers from education and technical sectors were comfortable with data sharing when it is framed as contributing to mutual benefit, assisting innovation and communities and supporting the wider agri‑sector to thrive.
• Commercial partners and other data providers want data access and the efficiency of integrated systems; however, some remain cautious of losing competitive advantage, privacy, data control and data sovereignty.
• Strategies to foster sharing include the exclusion of metadata perceived as sensitive by companies’ interests, particularly cultivar details
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