The Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) develops and recommends best practices for journal author instructions around data and identifiers as a resource to the community. These best practices are consistent with and based on the COPDESS Statement of Commitment and have been developed with guidance from participants in COPDESS.…
Statement of Commitment from Earth and Space Science Publishers and Data Facilities Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences Earth and space science data are special resources, critical for advancing science and addressing societal challenges – from assessing and responding to natural hazards and climate change, to use of energy and natural…
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We continue to make progress to the next set of milestones. Right now we are finalizing the “testing” phase, with the Repository Finder Tool needing the most time to finish development. We are planning on measured steps to our public release of the commitment statement. “Slow and steady” is the rule. Here is what to watch…
This email marks an important transition in the Enabling FAIR Data project from development of recommendations and guidelines, to “testing” of those guidelines and how they will be implemented. Current activity includes: Developing a new tool for researchers, librarians, and others to find FAIR-compliant repositories for data deposition. DataCite and the re3data teams are working hard to have a…
More than 80 attendees participated in the kickoff meeting, which was aimed at aligning stakeholders and outlining and beginning initial work on developing solutions. One of the most exciting realizations of the workshop was that the necessary elements needed to effectively share data between repositories and publishers already exist at small scales and that several…
Note: Survey is now closed You are invited to participate in a survey about the increasingly open use of data in science. The information aggregated from the survey will directly support the “Enabling FAIR Data” project managed by a partnership that currently includes the American Geophysical Union, the Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth…
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has awarded a grant to a coalition of groups representing the international Earth and space science community, convened by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), to develop standards that will connect researchers, publishers, and data repositories in the Earth and space sciences to enable FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data – a concept first…
Suggested best practices in oral presentations developed by representatives at AGU and ESIP, and Shelley Stall, Ruth Duerr, Lynn Yarmey, Steve Diggs, and Bob Arko. AGU-Best-Practices-for-Data-in-Oral-Presentations