The role of research funder data policies and investments toward making data FAIR in the Earth and space sciences
Abstract
Research funders, which include federal science agencies, private foundations, and other grantmaking entities, set policies and make investments that influence many aspects of the research data lifecycle in the Earth and space sciences. Thus, funders are key stakeholders in efforts to make research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). In the proposal phase, funder requirements for data management plans (DMPs), supported by clear policy language on data sharing expectations and careful attention to DMPs by proposal reviewers and funder program officers, encourage thoughtful data planning by principal investigators (PIs). In the project phase, funder investments to support training and infrastructure to curate, archive, and discover data help PIs in achieving data sharing goals set forth in DMPs. PI annual reports to funders communicate changes in data planning, accommodating the often unexpected trajectories of research projects. Upon completion of a research award, PI final reports are evaluated by funder program officers, who can review data sharing outcomes and thus enforce funder data policy requirements. Throughout this research lifecycle, funder investments in community activities to determine data sharing priorities and set data standards further encourage good data management practices by scientists. This presentation will consider the important ways in which research funder policies and investments contribute to the goal of making data FAIR in the Earth and space sciences.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA32C..27M
- Keywords:
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- 1930 Data and information governance;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1999 General or miscellaneous;
- INFORMATICSDE: 6349 General or miscellaneous;
- POLICY SCIENCESDE: 6620 Science policy;
- PUBLIC ISSUES