Forging Cross-Stakeholder Partnerships to Accelerate Geoscience Discoveries: Cultivating Sustainable Disciplinary Open Science Communities
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Kinkade, Danie
name: Raia, Natalie
name: Wyborn, Lesley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This proposal was submitted on 14 Feb 2025 to the NSF GEO OSE Track 1 solicitation. The Co-PIs are Shelley Stall (AGU), Danie Kinkade (WHOI), and Natalie Raia (UA).  Special thank you to Lesley Wyborn who was integral in developing the approach and coordinated with the international seismology community and many others. Thank you to the individuals who intend to join us as Network Collaborator Committee members, Discipline Leadership, Discipline Liaisons, and those supporting the effort with Letters of Collaboration.

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Project Summary

This proposal seeks funding to convene, engage, and co-develop a critically-needed, low-tech, and sustainable framework for community specific data sharing practices with three geoscience disciplines: hydrology, oceans, and seismology. We will create a centralized web platform for discovering and accessing existing but disparate resources that will provide the activation energy necessary to infuse FAIR and Open Data and Science practices into current research workflows. The process will be researcher-driven, vetted and endorsed. The goal is to empower the target disciplines to be knowledgeable of, connected to, and adopt use of, their community’s existing CI resources, technologies and leading practices; proactive in effectively and efficiently managing and sharing FAIR research outputs. The impact of this proposal will result in higher quality, interoperable data being shared through community-preferred disciplinary repositories, accessible for immediate reuse in data-driven research, including AI/ML applications. A Framework Toolkit, will serve as a template for additional disciplines demonstrating community readiness.

Project Outcomes (items 1-3 for each discipline) Include:

1.     A Discipline-Specific Data and Digital Object Management Framework containing a vetted set of leading practices that are reviewed, approved, and mapped to the framework.

2.     A neutrally-branded web platform of trusted content with the context to apply the information.

3.     Engaged Discipline Leadership, Liaisons, and researchers that support and sustain the framework.  

4.     Framework Toolkit, with implementation guidance, for use by additional disciplines

Letters of Collaboration 

Hydrology  



Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Incorporated (CUAHSI)

Environmental Data Initiative


Oceans



British Oceanographic Data Centre: 

British Antarctic Survey


Seismology



National French Seismological Data Center, ISTerre

AuScope

EarthScope

Swiss Seismological Service


Cross-Discipline 



PANGAEA


NSF FAIROS RCN



FAIR Facilities and Instruments, FAIROS RCN Award 2226397


Scientific Societies and Organizations



Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Science Council (ISC)

Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

European Geosciences Union, Earth and Space Science Informatics Division (EGU ESSI)

World Data System (WDS)


Data Reuse Researcher



Dr. Ixchel M. Faniel


Organizations represented by the PIs and Network Collaborator Committee Members



Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

American Geophyscial Union Sections and Journals

American Geophysical Union Informatics Section (AGU Informatics Section)

Australian National University

Biological Chemical Oceanographic – Data Management Office (BCO-DMO), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)

Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS)

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)

Internet of Water

National Academy Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)

National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) of the Australian National University

National Oceanography Centre, UK

Ocean Network Canada

RDA Organizational Assembly

RDA Fair Data Maturity Model Working Group

RDA/ESIP Earth, Space, and Environmental Interest Group (ESES IG)

RDA Complex Citation Working Group

RDA Coordinating Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Processes Working Group (Repo2Pub)