Abstract
The geoscience and chemistry communities have numerous common practices and dependency on data standards. Recent efforts from the International Union on Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) are to explore and collaborate on approaches and sharing lessons learned on efforts to implement the FAIR Guiding Principles as they apply to data in their respective communities. This paper summarizes their efforts-to-date highlighting the importance of existing communities, Scientific Unions, standards bodies and societies in taking deliberate steps to move and encourage researcher adoption of the FAIR tenets.
Highlights
Researchers in the geosciences and chemistry often find data valuable to their work by identifying relevant articles and gaining access through the supplementary information, or by requesting the data from the authors
The data needed to address such complex interdisciplinary scientific questions and the problems of the future will benefit from common guidelines and best practices that all researchers follow to help each other navigate the complexity of our world through data. This includes standards that are well-adopted, wellimplemented and managed, and endorsed through bodies such as the long-standing Scientific Unions and other professional organizations. They have a new role in recommending the authoritative source of this information and in collaborating with other Unions on vocabularies and best practices that can be used by multiple domains [3]
They are both challenged with how best to establish common vocabularies, metadata best practices, and formats with formal structures that sustainably support these areas of expertise. They are further challenged with limitations on the number of repositories and the amount of curation support available to preserve the large and complex body of supporting data as part of the scientific record. Researchers in both communities face the burden of nonexistent or unaligned guidelines from funders, publishers, and others on what is required for data management and preservation in these disciplines
Summary
Researchers in the geosciences and chemistry often find data valuable to their work by identifying relevant articles and gaining access through the supplementary information, or by requesting the data from the authors. The data needed to address such complex interdisciplinary scientific questions and the problems of the future will benefit from common guidelines and best practices that all researchers follow to help each other navigate the complexity of our world through data This includes standards that are well-adopted, wellimplemented and managed, and endorsed through bodies such as the long-standing Scientific Unions and other professional organizations. Two organizations working hard to leverage each other’s good work are the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Both are celebrating their centennial in 2019 and have been actively engaging over the last year to explore their common challenges and support each other in taking steps toward more open and FAIR data. In AGU’s 2019 centennial celebration and programming the organization is focused on supporting the advancement of Earth and space science while providing a platform to broaden and deepen engagement within and outside the Earth and space science community
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