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nSummary

The Earth Science Division (ESD) of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has been promoting open data since the 1990s. The latest NASA SMD data and information policy (i.e., SPD-41a) requires all NASA-funded data and information to be freely available and openly shared, including such Earth science data products that are managed by NASA data repositories. SPD-41a also explicitly recommends all SMD-funded scientific data and information to follow the FAIR Guiding Principles. 

Meeting the FAIR data requirements specified in SPD-41a will undoubtedly impact how data producers generate their datasets and how data repositories manage their data stewardship workflows. Currently, there is no consistent and practical guidance on how to best follow the FAIR Principles but such guidance is expected to be in high demand. 

To help address this challenge, the Earth Science Data System Working Group (ESDSWG) on Making NASA SMD-funded Earth Science Data Open, Free and FAIR (O’FAIR) has been established to develop a practical guide document. This document, the Inception Report, is the first of two deliverables to be produced by the working group.  The Inception Report document offers a high-level overview of the current landscape of community FAIR practices. It describes the FAIR Principles and provides examples of how stakeholders can interpret the FAIR Principles in practice. It identifies and lists FAIR practices and describes approaches that are being applied, currently. 

The O’FAIR Inception Report also serves as a centralized place to hold consolidated materials and information that have been collected by the working group to prepare for the development of a guide document, the second deliverable.

Status

This current version of the NASA O’FAIR WG Inception Report is v01r00-20230508. It is intended to be a live document and may be updated as needed in the future to reflect new or additional content.

Document

An Overview of Community FAIR Practices – NASA O’FAIR WG Inception Report

Current Version

v01r00-20230508

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/DOC/ESCO/ESDSWG-0001V1 (reserved but not yet retrievable - files can be downloaded below)

Suggested Citation

Peng, G., R. R. Downs, H. K. Ramapriyan, M. A. Parsons, D. F. Moroni, Z. Liu, S. J. S. Khalsa, C. Mears, Y. Wei, B. Ramachandran, S. Smith and NASA O’FAIR WG, 2023: An Overview of Community FAIR Practices – NASA O’FAIR WG Inception Report. Document ID: NASA-OFAIR-ESDSWG-DOC-0001. CC-BY-4.0 International. Version: v01r00-20230508, https://doi.org/10.5067/DOC/ESCO/ESDSWG-0001V1 (reserved)

Applicability

We envision that the document could be useful to NASA data managers and producers who need to ensure or improve the SPD-41a compliance of their data and information as well as project managers for future missions in defining data management and stewardship requirements.

Limitations

Given the limitation on the time available to the members of this working group to dedicate to this effort, the community FAIR practices captured are not necessarily exhaustive or comprehensive.

Access

Download the latest version of the IR document in PDF and the supplementary file in spreadsheet.


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