Dr Rebecca Farrington2, Dr Kerstin Lehnert3, Dr Marthe Klöcking4, Dr Angus Nixon5, Dr Dominik Hezel6, Dr Lucia Profeta3, Dr Kirsten Elger7, Dr Alexander Prent2, Dr Lesley Wyborn1
1Australian National University, Australia, 2AuScope Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, 3Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University), Palisades, United States, 4University of Münster, Münster, Germany, 5University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 6Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 7Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Position: Head of GFZ Data Services , Potsdam, Germany
Biography:
Rebecca Farrington is the Director of Research Data Systems at AuScope Ltd, Australia’s national provider of Research Infrastructure for the Geoscience community. Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Geography Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and an Academic Convenor on the Petascale Campus Initiative (Chancellery) at The University of Melbourne. With research expertise in computational fluid dynamics, she is passionate about developing community-led data and compute-intensive research initiatives and supporting the people behind them.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-6965
Abstract:
The OneGeochemistry CODATA Working Group seeks to establish a global network of interoperable geochemical data systems to maximise the capacity of research investments in laboratory analysis to resolve challenges to science and society. As geochemical data are heterogeneous and very fragmented, a collaborative solution is required to interlink the distributed systems to facilitate seamless access to the wealth of data existing internationally across the research, government and industry sectors. Fundamental to this ambition is the development of consensus-driven community standards that will make geochemical data not just Findable, Accessible, but genuinely Interoperable and Reusable to both humans and machines.
OneGeochemistry was started in 2018 by a small international group of data providers and research infrastructures who recognised that reporting and exchanging geochemical analytical data online requires agreed, consistent protocols. The goal is to promote geochemical protocols internationally and ultimately facilitate their adoption widely enough to become globally accepted data standards. To support the initiative, OneGeochemistry has also sought and obtained endorsement from international professional societies and unions.
However, as the demand for cross-domain data integration grows, harmonising protocols and standards within the geochemistry community is not enough. From 2022-2024 OneGeochemistry also participated in the CODATA/RDA-led EU-Horizon WorldFAIR project as one of 11 case studies to advance the interoperability and reusability of data across disciplines.
This poster will showcase what has been achieved so far to both facilitate the creation of a global network of distributed geochemical data systems and to ensure that geochemical data can contribute to cross-domain research challenges.