"A love letter to your future self": What scientists need to know about FAIR data | Nature Index

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-05-13

Summary:

"The idea that scientific data should be FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — is one increasingly endorsed by scientific institutions including the United States National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine, the European Commission, and the Wellcome Trust. But it is yet to gain much traction among the people that ultimately matter, the scientists generating the data. The 2018 State of Open Data report, published by Digital Science, found that just 15% of researchers were “familiar with FAIR principles”. ..."

Link:

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/what-scientists-need-to-know-about-fair-data

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oa.new oa.data oa.fair oa.unfamiliarity oa.compliance oa.metadata oa.terminology oa.definitions

Date tagged:

05/13/2019, 14:00

Date published:

05/13/2019, 10:00