Dr. Kerstin Lehnert1, Danie Kinkade2, Dr. Natalie Raia3, Shelley Stall4, Dr. Kirsten Elger5, Dr. Matthew Warke6, Dr. Lesley Wyborn7,8
1Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, 2Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, 3University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, 4American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States, 5 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, 6Taylor and Francis Group, Oxford, United Kingdom, 7Australian Research Data Commons, Acton, Australia, 8Australian National Computational Infrastructure, ANU, Acton, Australia
Biography:
Kerstin Lehnert is Doherty Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and directs Lamont’s Geoinformatics Research Group. Her work centers on the development and operation of community-driven data infrastructure and, in particular, on using cyberinfrastructure to improve sharing of material samples and the data derived from them. She developed and oversees operation of EarthChem and SESAR (both managed as part of IEDA2), and the Astromaterials Data System. She initiated and helped establish community organizations such as COPDESS, IGSN e.V., and OneGeochemistry. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-1977
Danie Kinkade is an Information Systems Specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and co-PI and Director of the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Her research interests lie at the intersection of information science and oceanographic research, where focus on data curation through use of novel technologies and best practices facilitates open science. She is active in efforts to advance the field of data management and has served in a leadership capacity for several programs and consortia including AGU’s Informatics Section, and as an investigator on several grant sponsored cyberinfrastructure-related projects. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-7347
Natalie Raia is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Information at the University of Arizona and studies sample collection and reuse practices of scientists to inform improvements to the functionality, interoperability, and usability of next-gen digital sample and data repositories. She is active in international efforts to develop guidelines and resources to enable scientists in making samples and data more FAIR. Natalie holds a BSc and PhD in Geology, with a focus in geochemistry. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-3282
Shelley Stall is the Vice President for the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Open Science Leadership Program. She, and the team, work with AGU’s members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research data and software are managed, valued, and made as open as possible. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2926-8353
Kirsten Elger is head of GFZ Data Services, the domain repository for geosciences data, hosted at GFZ. She developed the repository into an internationally recognized place for the publication of citable geoscience data and the unique identification of physical samples with International Geo Sample Number (IGSN). Her expertise includes metadata standardization, harmonization and interoperability and the usage of persistent identifiers for data, text and physical samples. She is chief executive Editor of Earth System Science Data and the Committee on DOIs for Geodetic Data of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-8602
Matthew Warke is the Journals Portfolio Manager for Geoscience and Paleontology at Taylor and Francis where he supports the publication of several Earth Science journals run in partnership with learned scientific societies and museums. Matthew holds a BSc and PhD in Geology and Geochemistry and was an active researcher for many years before transitioning to a career in publishing. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9830-0383
Lesley Wyborn is an Honorary Professor at ANU at the NCI and at the Research School of Earth Sciences. She also works part time for ARDC as a Data Strategist. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4943
Abstract:
Traditionally, ‘data’ related to scholarly publications were presented within the paper as a table and/or attached as supplements. Today, funder and publisher policies, particularly those supporting Open Science, are directing researchers to share data and software created during research in recognised repositories. But the capabilities and services of repositories vary significantly, ranging from generalist repositories that offer easy data deposition and fast DOI assignment without data review, to domain repositories that provide discipline-specific curation to optimize quality and reusability of data. Providers of such curation services are challenged to fit into the publication workflow in a timely fashion.
Data publication processes are highly variable and there is little shared understanding of the role of researchers (authors), data repositories, and journal editors, who generally work independently of each other: bottlenecks are now arising at the touchpoints between them. Such delays encourage researchers to deposit the datasets associated with their publication into generalist repositories, circumventing disciplinary curation and missing an opportunity to curate all project data and software in a FAIR-compliant way.
This paper will present how the Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) works with publishers and data facilities to help translate aspirations of FAIR, CARE and Open Data/Open Science from policy into practice. It will also discuss a proposed International Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Group, which seeks to engage researchers, funders, repositories, publishers, and journal editors to improve disciplinary data curation efficiency; long-term data availability; and promote proper data citation and data management practices.