Sharing Begins at Home
William Dempsey, Ian Foster, Scott Fraser, Carl Kesselman

TL;DR
This paper advocates for applying FAIR data principles continuously throughout research projects to improve data sharing, reuse, and quality, using simple tools and practices from the start.
Contribution
It introduces a continuous FAIR approach to research data management, emphasizing early organization and simple tools to enhance data sharing and reuse.
Findings
Continuous FAIR application improves data findability and reusability.
Simple tools like lightweight identifiers and packaging facilitate FAIR compliance.
Practical example from neuroscience demonstrates feasibility.
Abstract
The broad sharing of research data is widely viewed as of critical importance for the speed, quality, accessibility, and integrity of science. Despite increasing efforts to encourage data sharing, both the quality of shared data, and the frequency of data reuse, remain stubbornly low. We argue here that a major reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is that the organization of research results in the findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) form required for reuse is too often deferred to the end of a research project, when preparing publications, by which time essential details are no longer accessible. Thus, we propose an approach to research informatics that applies FAIR principles continuously, from the very inception of a research project, and ubiquitously, to every data asset produced by experiment or computation. We suggest that this seemingly challenging…
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Taxonomy
TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management · Research Data Management Practices · Cell Image Analysis Techniques
