[OpenGeoscience] OSGeo becoming a signatory of the Enabling FAIR Data project

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Dear Peter,
Thanks for you excellent work.

Maxi

Il giorno ven 21 dic 2018, 15:59 "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de> ha
scritto:

> Hello list,
>
> this is an update about OSGeo activities in the Enabling FAIR project and
> a call for help to condense the bulk of information into a friendly and
> easy digestible posting for other OSgeo lists including geo4all, announce,
> etc.
>
> A summary about the Enabling FAIR Data project and the draft (still way
> too bulky and lengthy) of the friendly posting is available on this wiki
> page:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EnablingFAIRData
>
> For your convenience, please find the current draft of the posting below.
>
> Happy holidays and a great 2019,
> Peter
>
>
> OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory of the Enabling FAIR Data
> project (draft)
>
> What happened ?
> ===============
> María Arias de Reyna, current President of OSGeo signed the commitment
> statement of the Enabling FAIR Data project on behalf of the board of OSGeo
> in October 2018.
>
>
> What is this about ?
> ====================
> The Enabling FAIR Data project is funded by the Laura and John Arnold
> Foundation and is managed by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). OSGeo
> signed a memorandum of understanding with AGU in May 2018. The projects'
> goal is to create an initial critical mass of researchers, research
> institutes and organisations, publishers, data repositories und funding
> agencies to establish the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible,
> Interoperable, Reusable) as best practices in the sciences, beginning in
> the Geosciences.
>
> This as a step towards the establishment of the Open Science paradigm,
> whith its core aspects of open data, open source software and open access.
> From this point of view, open source software, like the OSGeo software
> 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).
>
> What exactly did OSgeo commit to ?
> ==================================
> The essence of the commitment statement is the commitment to these goals:
> "Ensuring that Earth, space, and environmental science research outputs,
> including data, software, and samples or standard information about them,
> are open, FAIR, and curated in trusted domain repositories whenever
> possible and that other links and information related to scholarly
> publications follow leading practices for transparency and information.
> This means that: Publication of scholarly articles in the Earth, space,
> and environmental science community is conditional upon the concurrent
> availability of the data underpinning the research finding, with only a
> few, standard, widely adopted exceptions, such as around privacy for human
> subjects or to protect heritage field samples.
>
> These data should, to the greatest extent possible, be shared, open, and
> stored in community-approved FAIR-aligned repositories. Leading
> repositories provide additional quality checks around domain data and data
> services and facilitate discovery and reuse of data and other research
> outputs."
> The goals of both the project and OSGeo are highly compatible and OSGeo is
> already well on track to establish a open source infrastructure for FAIR.
>
> What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ?
> =======================================
> OSGeo as a society (in the sense of a community) is already practising the
> majority of the Enabling FAIR Data desiderata (four out of six):
>
> • We support and promulgate open and FAIR data principles and practices in
> core Earth, space, and environmental science activities and policies.
> • OSGeo is engaging in the development of community standards,
> infrastructure, tools and services to enable open and FAIR data practices
> through its incubation process.
> • We provide regular education and outreach to their communities regarding
> these principles and practices through the conferences and code sprints.
> • We promote open and FAIR data activities as important criteria in
> promotion, awards, and honors through the Sol Katz award.
> OSGeo should continue to advance these topics:
> • Participation in further development of open and FAIR data practices.
> • Provision of other credit and recognition for researchers that are
> following open and FAIR data practices and encourage others to include such
> recognition as part of regular career advancement.
>
> What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ?
> =====================================================================
>
> We're already fullfilling these requirements (five out of seven) to the
> most part:
>
> • OSGeo ensures that research outputs (e.g., data, software, technology)
> curated by (OSGeo-incubated software-)repositories are open and FAIR, have
> essential documentation, and include human-readable and machine-readable
> metadata (e.g., on landing pages) in standard formats that are exposed and
> publicly discoverable. Machine-readability of metadata needs to be improved.
> • Ingestion and exposing of data to promote interoperability and reuse.
> • We ensure that data and software have licenses that are as open as
> possible, and as protected as necessary.
> • Support peer-review of related manuscripts by enabling access to the
> research outputs prior to publication through the FOSS4G scientific track.
> • Third-party validation of trustworthy and sustainable practices and
> capabilities through the global userbase of OSGeo projects in industry,
> education and academia.
>
> We need to work on these requirements by Enabling FAIR Data:
>
> • Ensure that unique, persistent identifiers are used for authors (e.g.,
> ORCID), research objects (e.g., Digital Object Identifier), and physical
> samples (e.g., IGSN).
> • Create associations among the research outputs that they manage and
> other related entities.
>
> All hands: Call to action
> =========================
> The commitment statement can be signed both by organisations and
> individuals. All members of the OSGeo communities are encouraged sign the
> statement personally and take action in the following.
>
> Overview over all signatories so far:
> http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/signatories/
>
> What can individuals (OSGeo and beyond) do ?
> =============================================
>
> • Make research outputs FAIR and, whenever possible, open by depositing
> research outputs (e.g., data, software, physical sample information, etc.)
> in trustworthy, community-accepted, FAIR-aligned repositories that support:
> • Documenting data (and other research outputs as is possible) to agreed
> community standards that describe provenance and enable discovery,
> assessment of reliability, and reuse
> • Persistent identifiers for data (and other research outputs as is
> possible) and consistently using these in citations.
> • Licenses for data (and other research outputs as is possible) that is as
> open as possible to enable the widest potential reuse.
> • Cite data, software, physical samples, and other products created or
> reused for your research in your publications.
> • Include a data availability statement in your publication to make it
> clear where the data (and other research outputs as is possible) that
> supports the paper can be accessed along with any other access information.
> • Prepare, use, and manage data management plans for your data and other
> research outputs. Keep the plan updated as research progresses.
> • Educate colleagues in practices that enable open and FAIR research
> outputs.
> • Support development of open and FAIR standards and practices in your
> institutions and organizations, and in scholarly publishing as authors,
> reviewers, and editors.
>
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