https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/natasha-simons/Recent content in Natasha Simons on The CarpentriesHugoen-usWed, 20 Nov 2024 10:26:36 -0500https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2019/02/top-10-fair-published/Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2019/02/top-10-fair-published/**This post originally appeared on the [Library Carpentry website](https://librarycarpentry.org)** <p>By <a href="https://twitter.com/libcce">Chris Erdmann</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/n_simons">Natasha Simons</a></p> <p>At <a href="http://www.carpentrycon.org/">CarpentryCon 2018</a>, Bérénice Batut and Katrin Leinweber led an engaging breakout session on “<a href="https://github.com/carpentries/carpentrycon/blob/master/CarpentryCon-2018/Sessions/2018-05-31/11-Breakout-11-Fostering-FAIR-Data-And-Sustainable-Software-Practices/Abstract.md">Fostering FAIR Data and Sustainable Software Practices</a>”. At that session, we discussed briefly the need for domain-relevant guidance on FAIR. What is FAIR? To use the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility or INCF's <a href="https://www.incf.org/activities/standards-and-best-practices/what-is-fair">description</a>:</p> <blockquote>"The FAIR principles are a set of community-developed guidelines to ensure that data or any digital object are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The FAIR principles specifically emphasize enhancing the ability of machines to automatically find and use data or any digital object, and support its reuse by individuals. Standards for the description, interoperability, citation etc. are at the core of these principles."</blockquote> <p>Later in the summer, it seemed like perfect timing when the <a href="https://ardc.edu.au/">Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)</a> approached <a href="https://librarycarpentry.org/">Library Carpentry</a> about hosting a worldwide sprint on developing FAIR material. Library Carpentry had hosted a <a href="https://librarycarpentry.org/timeline/">series of sprints</a> in the past as part of the Mozilla Global Sprint and ARDC had experience with developing material called “<a href="https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/skills/23-research-data-things/10-medical-and-health-things">10 Things</a>”. We decided to combine the two and give it a go!</p>https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2018/10/top-ten-fair-announcement/Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2018/10/top-ten-fair-announcement/<p><strong>This post originally appeared on the <a href="https://librarycarpentry.org">Library Carpentry website</a></strong></p> <h2 id="announcing-the-top-10-fair-data-things-global-sprint">Announcing the Top 10 FAIR Data Things Global Sprint</h2> <p>Join us on 29-30 November 2018, for the Top 10 FAIR Data Things Global Sprint! The Sprint is being organised by <a href="https://librarycarpentry.org/">Library Carpentry</a>, <a href="https://ardc.edu.au/">Australian Research Data Commons</a> and the Research Data Alliance <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/libraries-research-data.html">Libraries for Research Data Interest Group</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/">FOSTER Open Science</a>, <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/">OpenAire</a>, <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe">RDA Europe</a>, <a href="http://dmtclearinghouse.esipfed.org/">Data Management Training Clearinghouse</a>, <a href="https://www.cdlib.org/">California Digital Library</a>, <a href="http://datadryad.org/">Dryad</a>, <a href="https://www.aarnet.edu.au/">AARNet</a>, <a href="https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/research-and-publishing/centre-for-digital-scholarship">Center for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University</a>, and <a href="https://dans.knaw.nl/nl">DANS</a>.</p>