About Us

The GO FAIR US Support and Coordination Office is hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California San Diego. SDSC is involved in other related and high profile research data efforts, including the US National Science Foundation-funded West Big Data Innovation Hub and the US National Data Service (NDS). The US NDS, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Christine Kirkpatrick as Executive Director, was founded by a consortium that included academia, government, infrastructure providers, and non-profit institutions interested in creating and bridging evolving technologies and platforms that support the publication, discovery, and reuse of data. GO FAIR US was established in February 2019 as one of the first GO FAIR national offices, see the press release announcing the office start along with the declaration.