EnablingFAIRData - Revision history

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? */

2018-12-21T14:48:03Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? */

2018-12-21T14:47:31Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? */

2018-12-21T14:47:03Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? */

2018-12-21T14:46:28Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? */

2018-12-21T14:39:56Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? */

2018-12-21T14:33:05Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? */

2018-11-27T11:42:47Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? */

2018-11-27T11:37:23Z

What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ?

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory [DRAFT] */

2018-11-23T13:31:27Z

OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory [DRAFT]

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory [DRAFT] */

2018-11-23T13:25:52Z

OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory [DRAFT]

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 === 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:
+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.

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 === What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? ===
-We're already fullfilling these requirements to the most part:
+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.

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 === What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? ===
-We're already fullfil these requirements to the most part:
+We're already fullfilling these requirements 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.

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 === What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? ===
-* Ensure that research outputs (e.g., data, software, technology, and physical samples) curated by 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. [PL: The software repos of all OSGeo-incubated software projects are open and include documentation,  HOWEVER, we need to improve/introduce machine-readability of metadata :-) ]
+We're already fullfil these requirements to the most part:
-* Ingest and expose data to promote interoperability and reuse. [PL: See above: IMHO we're good regarding human-based reuse, not so sure about machine-based interoperability (unless we think about GDAL/OGR et al.) ]
-* 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). [PL: We need to work on this.]
+* 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.
-* Create associations among the research outputs that they manage and other related entities. [PL: ???]
+* Ingestion and exposing of data to promote interoperability and reuse.
-* Ensure that data and software have licenses that are as open as possible, and as protected as necessary. [PL: That's us.]
+* 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. [PL: FOSS4G scientific track]
+* Support peer-review of related manuscripts by enabling access to the research outputs prior to publication through the FOSS4G scientific track.
-* Gain third-party validation of trustworthy and sustainable practices and capabilities. [PL: The global userbase of OSGeo projects in industry, education and academia ?]
+* Third-party validation of trustworthy and sustainable practices and capabilities through the global userbase of OSGeo projects in industry, education and academia.
 === All hands: Call to action ===

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 OSGeo as a society (in the sense of a community) is already practising the majority of the Enabling FAIR Data desiderata:
- * We support and promulgate open and FAIR data principles and practices in core Earth, space, and environmental science activities and policies.
+* 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.
+* 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 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.
+* We promote open and FAIR data activities as important criteria in promotion, awards, and honors through the Sol Katz award.
-OSGeo should push forward regarding these topics:
+OSGeo should continue to advance these topics:
-* Participate in further development of open and FAIR data practices. [PL: We're doing this, but need to push this further (European perspective: Link OSGeo Europe chapters(s) with european GO FAIR initiative)]
+* Participation in further development of open and FAIR data practices.
-* Provide 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. [PL: Is this covered by the OSGeo icons for roles such as develoepr/psc/charter etc. or charter membership ?]
+* 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 ? ===

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 === What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? ===
-* Support and promulgate open and FAIR data principles and practices in their core Earth, space, and environmental science activities and policies.
+* Support and promulgate open and FAIR data principles and practices in their core Earth, space, and environmental science activities and policies. [PL: OSGeo is already doing this: OPEN (which is a wider range than FAIR) principles and practices]
-* Participate in further development of open and FAIR data practices.
+* Participate in further development of open and FAIR data practices. [PL: We're doing this, but need to push this further (European perspective: Link OSGeo Europe chapters(s) with european GO FAIR initiative)]
-* Engage in the development of community standards, infrastructure, tools and services to enable open and FAIR data practices.
+* Engage in the development of community standards, infrastructure, tools and services to enable open and FAIR data practices. [PL: OSGeo is already developing of community standards etc etc by its incubation process]
-* Provide regular education and outreach to their communities regarding these principles and practices.
+* Provide regular education and outreach to their communities regarding these principles and practices. [PL: We're doing this through the conferences and code sprints]
-* Promote open and FAIR data activities as important criteria in promotion, awards, and honors.
+* Promote open and FAIR data activities as important criteria in promotion, awards, and honors. [PL: Sol-Katz award !]
-* Provide 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.
+* Provide 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. [PL: Is this covered by the OSGeo icons for roles such as develoepr/psc/charter etc. or charter membership ?]
 === What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? ===

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 == OSGeo announcement about becoming a signatory [DRAFT] ==
-[What happened ?]
+=== 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 ?]
+=== 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.
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 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 did OSgeo commit to ?]
+=== What exactly did OSgeo commit to ? ===
 The essence of the commitment statement is the commitment to these goals:
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 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 ?]
+=== What can/should OSGeo do as a SOCIETY ? ===
 * Support and promulgate open and FAIR data principles and practices in their core Earth, space, and environmental science activities and policies.
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 * Provide 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 ?]
+=== What can/should OSGeo do as a REPOSITORY / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ? ===
 * Ensure that research outputs (e.g., data, software, technology, and physical samples) curated by 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.
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-[Call to action]
+=== 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.
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 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 ?]
+=== 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: