Advancing FAIR in the US
Our Aim is to connect FAIR stakeholders and foster a community where FAIR approaches can be shared, discussed, and advanced collaboratively.
News
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West Hub Affiliates at Arizona State University Pave Way for FAIR Models with CoMSES.Net
In May of 2020, Michael Barton, a West Hub affiliate, urged scientists to share their COVID-19 models as a way to ensure that their code was transparent and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). His call to action brought 56,000 individuals to his social and ecological model gateway called CoMSES.Net (Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences).
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West Hub Community Spotlight— Alaska Projects Focused on Data-Driven Environmental Systems
Chris Turner, a data librarian in Anchorage, Alaska at Axiom Data Science, recently spoke with science writer Kim Bruch from West Hub about his most recent data-related projects and how he strives to keep data FAIR.
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GO FAIR US Data Stewardship Interest Group Meeting and Next Steps
On 30 April 2021, GO FAIR US hosted a Data Stewardship Interest Group Meeting with roughly 70 registered attendees from the following organizations:
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FAIR Data and Software in the Scholarly Communications Lifecycle
On 22 January 2021, and 01 February 2021, I presented on the topic of “FAIR Data & Software in the Scholarly Communications Lifecycle” to dkNET and the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). The presentation (see slides) is a slimmed down version of a much longer session that is run at the Force11 Scholarly Communications Institute (see Zenodo record and slides).
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Next steps for the FAIR data & software lesson
On 2020 August 27-28, 29 participants from 21 institutions and 11 countries took part in the CarpentryCon @ Home - Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson sprint. The ultimate goal of the sprint was to develop a shared FAIR lesson that communities across the world can benefit from. Overall, participants made 35 commits, including 347 additions and 62 deletions, and closed 9 issues out of 16 opened during the sprint. Lesson development also occurred outside of GitHub, in Etherpads and Google Docs, and is in the process of being merged. Thanks to all the participants and their contributions!
Events
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FAIR Festival 2021
Save the date! On June 21st-23rd, GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office will be organizing a virtual FAIR Festival! Throughout the three days, we will celebrate the FAIR shift in research data management, and explore, discuss, and share FAIR experiences and strategies.
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FAIR Workflows
On June 16, 2021, the GO FAIR US Team hosted a webinar on FAIR Workflows at 12 pm PST / 3 pm EST / 7 pm UTC.
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Be FAIR and CARE— The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
On Wednesday June 16, 2021, EarthCube hosted a workshop event at 1:00 PM PST / 4 pm EST / 8 pm UTC. This event directly followed the GO FAIR US FAIR Workflows Webinar on June 16th.