The FAIR Island Project
Supporting scientific field stations as they put FAIR + CARE Principles into practice
The relationship between people, place, and data underpins some of the greatest challenges, and opportunities, of the 21st century. Relationships between human communities and their natural and built environments are increasingly mediated through digital data. In addition, there has been general enthusiasm for, and work towards Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data for Open Science.
The FAIR Island Project translates FAIR Data Principles and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance into practice for scientific field stations through the development of place-based data policies and critical research infrastructure centered on machine-actionable data management plans. (Read more)
FAIR Island Field Sites
The FAIR Island Project started as a partnership between the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of California, Berkeley, Gump South Pacific Research Station and the Tetiaroa Society’s Ecostation. We are excited to grow our partnerships with additional field stations, both within the UCNRS system and beyond. If you are interested in collaborating please send us an email at info at fairisland.org.
Project News
- FAIRsFAIR Review of Tetiaroa Data PolicyThe FAIR Island Project participated in the FAIRsFAIR Policy Enhancement Support Programme in the first part of 2021 sharing the… Read More »FAIR Island
- Migrating our Data Policies to GithubThe Tetiaroa Data Policy and the Generic Place-based Data Policy that evolved from it, were both originally drafted in Google… Read More »FAIR Island
- FAIR Island Featured in the FAIRsFAIR Implementation Stories!This Spring FAIRsFAIR published an implementation story [1] on FAIR Island aligned with their theme: “Supporting Data Management Planning for… Read More »FAIR Island
