[Board] ENABLING FAIR DATA COMMITMENT STATEMENT IN THE EARTH, SPACE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Loomio motion is now live:
https://www.loomio.org/d/iG1oVeQ7/request-for-board-to-sign-enabling-fair-data-commitment-statement

Best,
Angelos

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:27 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I have added this as an agenda item at the next regularly scheduled
> Board meeting, on 6 September
> (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-09-06).  Would you mind
> attending this IRC meeting in person?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2018-08-07 6:38 AM, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> > Hello Board,
> >
> > thanks for the feedback so far regarding the proposal to have OSGeo
> officially sign the online commitment statement of the Enabling FAIR Data
> project (
> http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/
> ).
> >
> > AFAIK there is currently no hard deadline for the signing of the
> commitment statement, so the Board can discuss the topic with ample time.
> >
> > The projects goal is to permanently establish the FAIR principles
> (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) as a step towards Open
> Science. From this point of view, open source software, like the graduated
> OSGeo projects) are considered a part of scientific _data_, which is/should
> be provided via well curated data repositories (i.e. software repository
> infrastructures as required by the OSGeo incubation process).
> >
> > More info about the project here:
> http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/
> >
> > Overview of the signatories so far:
> >
> http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/signatories/
> >
> > best,
> > Peter
> >
> > <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> >
> >
> >
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
OSGeo Charter Member
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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