2023 Fall DLC: We're in This Together: Research Data, Government Information, and the Future of Open Science
Speakers
- Deborah Yun Caldwell, Data Services Librarian, University of North Texas Libraries
- James R. Jacobs, U.S. Government Information Librarian, Stanford University Libraries
- Lynda Kellam, Interim Head of Research Data & Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Shari Laster, Head of Open Collections Curation & Access, Arizona State University Library
Description
In 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the largest funders of biomedical research, issued a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy effective January 25, 2023 that requires researchers to share scientific data to the extent possible. Moreover, an August 2022 memorandum from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), known as the Nelson Memo, requires Federal agencies to make Federally funded publications and data freely available without an embargo by December 31, 2025. Alongside the efforts to mandate data sharing, the NIH and the Nelson Memo advocate for data to be created using the FAIR principles, which aim to ensure the long-term access to and reuse of research data. Increasingly, researchers and data curation and management efforts are also acting under the CARE principles, which were created by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance to respond to needs of Indigenous communities for data sovereignty and self-determination. In this panel presentation, team members from the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project will present and discuss the FAIR and CARE principles for data, and offer perspectives on how issues in open science, research data management, and digital preservation of Government information are closely interwoven.