Gump South Pacific Research Station

by | May 18, 2022 | Field Station

Key Outcomes & Updates from Year 3

Summary of Highlights and Outcomes for Year 3 of the NSF Project "EAGER: The FAIR Island Project for Place-based Open Science" Major Goals of the Project Develop and iterate on an exemplar place-based data policy. Adapt and prove the capabilities of networked Data...

Call for AGU Abstracts for: IN19 Curating and Interconnecting Persistent Identifiers for Better Research and Funder Mandates

FAIR Island team members, John Chodacki and Erin Robinson, are excited to co-convene this upcoming session. The FAIR Island project is one example of the power of PIDs to comply with research and funder mandates. If you work in this area, please consider submitting an...

The Power of Machine Actionable DMPs

The quick video above shows the DataCite Commons page for the FAIR Island EAGER Data Management Plan. Over the life of our project we followed the suggested practice of referencing our own DMP. Figure 1 shows the links showing up organically on the DMP page. Figure 1....

Field Station Journal MVP

This is our first field station journal, iPlaces Tetiaroa and the first edition of the journal, an MVP. It brings together the tremendous effort of scientists, the Tetiaroa Ecostation staff and the Tetiaroa Society to highlight some of the incredible work happening on...

New Publication: A Programmatic and Scalable Approach to making Data Management Machine-Actionable

Praetzellis, M., Buys, M., Chen, X., Chodacki, J., Davies, N., Garza, K., Nancarrow, C., Riley, B. and Robinson, E. (2023) ‘A Programmatic and Scalable Approach to making Data Management Machine-Actionable’, Data Science Journal, 22(1), p. 26. Available at:...

Key Outcomes & Updates from Year 2

Summary of Highlights and Outcomes for Year 2 of the NSF Project "EAGER: The FAIR Island Project for Place-based Open Science" Major Goals of the Project Develop and adopt a place-based data policy for Tetiaroa Ecostation and create a generalized data policy for other...

Cross-Post: FAIR Island Experiments with Connecting Project Resources in DataCite

Note: This post was first shared via the Metadata Game Changers' Blog. We are cross-posting here to have a complete record for the FAIR Island Project. Unique and permanent identifiers (PIDs) for many types of research objects are a growing part of the global research...

(Project Output) FAIR Island: real-world examples of place-based open science

We are excited to announce that our first paper from the FAIR Island Project was published on March 23. This paper summarizes the FAIR Island concept and some of our initial experiments.  Erin Robinson, Matthew Buys, John Chodacki, Kristian Garzas, Steven Monfort,...

Generic Data Policy V1.0 Release and Github/Zenodo Workflow

 After more than a year of community consultation and feedback, the FAIR Island Project team published the first official release of the Generic Place-based Data Policy to Zenodo. The Generic Place-based data policy is a template derived from the draft Tetiaroa...

Provide Data Policy Feedback with Hypothes.is

Several weeks ago we posted about the migration of our data policy work from Google Docs to Github. With that migration we began to use Github issues for both repos that hosted the Generic Data Policy and the draft Tetiaroa Data Policy. This was great - it allowed us...