Description
This session focuses on the management, discoverability, and long-term preservation of data across various disciplines. Presenters will address critical challenges ranging from linking publications with data in social sciences and curating physical geoscience samples, to improving the findability of historical datasets and the sustainability of geoscience information standards. The session will showcase practical approaches like implementing FAIR principles, frameworks for harmonising metadata, and developing robust digital preservation strategies.
Session Chair: Libby Liggins
In SSH (Social Science and Humanities) the link between data and publication can be seen from different angles depending on its potential use. The first use that comes to mind is to cite a dataset in a publication for the purposes of scientific verification. It can be done in a number of ways, from a simple text citation, both in the publication or in the description of a dataset, to a PID...
Physical samples are essential research assets. Systematic curation ensures their accessibility and reusability for future scientific studies. CSIRO Mineral Resources (CMR) scientists collect diverse physical samples—including rock, regolith, water, and vegetation—for research and mineral exploration projects. These samples are costly to obtain, irreplaceable, and critical for generating and...
Older data in paper or analog format (e.g., field/lab notebooks, photos, maps) held in labs, offices, and archives across research institutions are an often overlooked resource for potential reuse in new scientific studies. However, with the uncertainty around federal funding and research administration in the United States, there has been speculation that scientists across multiple...
Important global geoscience information standards are developed, managed and governed by the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), a commission under the auspices of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). CGI's standards include logical data models such as GeoSciML and EarthResourceML. These data models are supported by controlled...
Advancing sustainable, high-quality, long-term data stewardship and management is fundamental to ensuring that marine data remains a valuable resource for research, policy, and environmental monitoring. This paper explores the practicalities of establishing organisational policies and methodological approaches that govern how operational and research data are collected, processed, stored,...
We can state the following on the sharing of research data. Policy shapes awareness, repositories promote practices and culture shapes practice. The existence of reliable and robust data repositories across disciplines, institutions, and geographical areas is a crucial step in the data sharing process. One of the world leaders in research investment and production is South Korea, which ranks...
Identification, selection and appraisal are key digital preservation activities when ingesting data objects for long-term preservation. This paper describes the approach taken to a major new global survey by the EOSC EDEN project, designed to improve understanding of current practices in this area, and the frameworks, standards and guidelines that support digital preservation professionals...
The exponential growth of data has intensified challenges in achieving cross-disciplinary and cross-repository interoperability. Metadata standards—such as DataCite, Dublin Core, and OpenAIRE—play a pivotal role in data discovery and reuse, yet their heterogeneity creates fragmentation. This proposal presents the implementation of the CODATA-CDIF Conceptual Domain Interoperability Framework...
