About GeoFAIR
GeoFAIR is building a community-governed, discipline-specific framework to support FAIR data practices across Earth and environmental sciences.
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Project Motivation
The GeoFAIR project aims to convene, engage, and co-develop a critically-needed, low-tech, and sustainable framework for data sharing leading practices with three pilot geoscience disciplines: hydrology, oceans, and seismology.
The goal is to empower these target disciplines to be knowledgeable of, and connected to, their community's existing cyberinfrastructure resources, technologies, and leading practices, and to be proactive in effectively and efficiently managing and sharing FAIR research outputs.
The full project proposal can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14887842
Project Outcomes
For each pilot discipline (hydrology, oceans, seismology), GeoFAIR will deliver:
- A discipline-specific, co-created data and digital object management resource hub structure, hosted on a neutrally branded web platform. The hub will be a place where community members can easily locate community-vetted, trusted data management practices, data repository information, and more. It will uplift existing efforts taking place in disparate organizations and initiatives around the world.
- A discipline-specific, co-created governance structure to ensure continued stewardship and updating of the resource hub. The governance structure will leverage existing community structures in global scientific societies and organizations to ensure success of the initiative beyond the GeoFAIR project period.
At the conclusion of the project, informed by the experience of working with the three pilot disciplines, the GeoFAIR team will publish and socialize an openly available discipline toolkit containing implementation guidance for additional disciplines that are demonstrating community readiness.
Network Collaborator Committee
The GeoFAIR project benefits greatly from the expertise and oversight of an eight-member Network Collaborator Committee. The Committee is composed of leaders in the three pilot disciplines who possess a broad geoscience network and expertise in community engagement, change-making, and international initiatives.
These leaders support the project PIs in grounding the work, informing the design of the framework, facilitating conversations with disciplinary community members, and informing the design of a long-term, focused plan for governing and updating each disciplinary resource hub.
Representatives include:
- Reyna Broadhurst (Cross-Domain)
- Justin Buck (Ocean sciences)
- Kyle Onda (Hydrology)
- Helle Pedersen (Seismology)
- Peter Pissierssens (Ocean sciences)
- Jordan Read (Hydrology)
- Lesley Wyborn (Cross-Domain)
Project Team
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