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Every day, scientists generate enormous amounts of research data. But once a study is published, another challenge begins. Can another researcher find that data? Will they understand how it was collected? Can they combine it with other datasets years later? For decades, Stanford University professor Mark Musen has worked on answering those questions. Rather than studying a single disease or developing a single treatment, he has focused on building the tools that help research

Wilbert van Panhuis contributed vastly to data science for public health throughout his career. He established Project Tycho, an open-access data repository that applies FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) guidelines to global health data, directed the inaugural Coordination Center for the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) for many years and directed projects applying FAIR standards to data for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectiou

This year marks the tenth anniversary of The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship, a paper that has revolutionized Open Science and positively impacted research practices. By introducing high-level guidance, the paper has inspired a wide range of initiatives and an ever-growing community of practice that believes that research data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). In the coming weeks, GO FAIR US will be highl

GO FAIR US was honored to attend and lead sessions during International Data Week (IDW) 2025, held in Brisbane, Australia. This year’s theme was “Data for Positive Change: empowering communities and advancing research.” As strong advocates for the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR), we share in IDW’s spirit for good data practices. IDW marked the debut of A Blueprint for Including Digital Objects in the NIAID Data Ecosystem , o

To support NIH stakeholders in accessing cutting-edge methods and community-driven knowledge, the GO FAIR US program at the University of...

Looking back—a hardware enabler Over the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st, computer disk storage...

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc has awarded a fully funded research...

Last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded more than $12.5 million to fund 10 three-year projects within the FAIR...

Have you ever wondered how the “normal” resting heart rate for your age group, used by your doctor, was determined or how the American ...

San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services (RDS) Chief Strategist Melissa Cragin (principal investigator) and...

On 30 April 2021, GO FAIR US hosted a Data Stewardship Interest Group Meeting with roughly 70 registered attendees...

On April 20th, the innovations of African scientists were on display through the tremendously successful project, VODAN Africa.

GO FAIR US encourages and supports recent conversations around national persistent identifier (PID) strategies, particularly in the USA...

By now, you might have heard the latest buzz about the FAIR Data Principles that show up in so many places related to creating, managing...

The goal of this post is to share the process I used to collect open research publications data, using primarily OpenRefine, to understand..

On 22 January 2021, and 01 February 2021, I presented on the topic of “FAIR Data & Software in the Scholarly Communications Lifecycle” to...

The “r” in FAIR— which stands for reusable— has always been confused with reproducibility. Although the two have different meanings and...