FAIR Data Reuse : the Path through Data Citation

Groth, Paul, Helena Cousijn, Tim Clark, et Carole Goble. « FAIR Data Reuse – the Path through Data Citation ». Data Intelligence, 1 novembre 2019, 78‑86. https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00030.

One of the key goals of the FAIR guiding principles is defined by its final principle – to optimize data sets for reuse by both humans and machines. To do so, data providers need to implement and support consistent machine readable metadata to describe their data sets. This can seem like a daunting task for data providers, whether it is determining what level of detail should be provided in the provenance metadata or figuring out what common shared vocabularies should be used. Additionally, for existing data sets it is often unclear what steps should be taken to enable maximal, appropriate reuse. Data citation already plays an important role in making data findable and accessible, providing persistent and unique identifiers plus metadata on over 16 million data sets. In this paper, we discuss how data citation and its underlying infrastructures, in particular associated metadata, provide an important pathway for enabling FAIR data reuse.

LIBER Webinar: Finding and Reusing Research Data

Gregory, Kathleen. LIBER Webinar: Finding and Reusing Research Data. 14/11/2019. https://libereurope.eu/blog/2019/11/18/webinar-video-data-curation-from-a-practical-perspective/

Sharing research data is a practice that is increasingly encouraged by funders, institutions, and research communities.

Policies, tools and training programmes are being developed to assist researchers and data providers to make data available in a way that optimizes data findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (i.e. according to the FAIR principles). One of the promises driving both data sharing and policy development is that shared data can and will be discovered and reused; but are users (researchers, librarians, students) discovering this data? And if they are finding them, (how) are they reusing them?

In this webinar, organised by LIBER’s Research Data Management Working Group, Kathleen Gregory presented an overview of recent research investigating how researchers and librarians engage in practices of finding, understanding and reusing research data. She provided tips for finding research data and an opportunity for attendees to consider what this research means for developing services at their own organizations.

Gregory, Kathleen. LIBER Webinar: Finding and Reusing Research Data. 14/11/2019. https://libereurope.eu/blog/2019/11/18/webinar-video-data-curation-from-a-practical-perspective/