How to publish FAIR data

This video shows you how to publish FAIR data. You'll learn what FAIR means, see simple examples of how to comply with each principle, and get a checklist to help you publish data that’s Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. ## Checkpoints 00:00 Introduction 00:43 What does FAIR stand for? 01:25 Who wants to use your data? 04:55 Where to publish your data (F and A) 05:48 A globally unique, persistent identifier (F1) 07:25 Why discovery metadata is important (F2, F3) 10:03 Standardized communications protocols (A1) 12:36 Data access portals 14:43 A big problem with some popular data centres 16:39 FAIR data doesn't have to be Open Access (A1.2) 17:10 Metadata accessible even when data are no longer available (A2) 17:56 What to publish (I and R) 18:00 What is interoperability? 19:41 What is machine-readable data? 20:24 A formal, accessible, shared and broadly applicable language for data and metadata (I1) 21:49 FAIR controlled vocabularies and the NERC vocabulary server (I2) 23:29 References within your dataset (I3) 24:17 Examples of FAIR-compliant data formats 24:44 CF-NetCDF 26:07 Darwin Core Archives 27:27 Licenses for data (R1.1) 30:09 Provenance (R1.2) 30:53 Domain-relevant community standard (R1.3) 31:38 A checklist for publishing FAIR data ## Learn to create a CF-NetCDF file https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHJhAFf1W0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpykv05eUR0rAuaLnybkZORnCwyND4CV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QvdSffqrM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpykv05eUR0oqBYFNqtiRgJGYR2tpCYtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZDygRjfMIg ## Learn to create a Darwin Core Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fuq8VZW_4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbvlwnYXuPU ## Data access portals **SIOS:** https://sios-svalbard.org/metsis/search Contributing data centres: https://sios-svalbard.org/DataSubmission **SAON:** https://data.arcticobserving.org/metsis/search Contributing data centres: https://data.arcticobserving.org/node/48 **Polder:** https://polder.info/ Contributing data centres: https://search.polder.info/about/ **Geoportal**: https://www.geoportal.org/ Contributing data centres: https://www.geoportal.org/community/guest/general-information ## Impressive platforms using FAIR data Destination earth: https://platform.destine.eu/ Ocean virtual lab: https://ovl.oceandatalab.com/ GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/ ## Other useful links NERC vocabulary server: https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/ CF conventions: https://cfconventions.org/ Darwin Core: https://dwc.tdwg.org/ Nansen Legacy template generator: https://www.nordatanet.no/aen/template-generator/ ## References Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. _The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship._ Sci Data 3, 160018 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18 Destination Earth. (2023). _Destination Earth infographic._ Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10439437