FAIRsharing

[JonathanGregory]

Topic for discussion

I have received an email from fairsharing@oerc.ox.ac.uk. I don't know why it came to me - perhaps others have had it as well. I've pasted it below. Does anyone know about this? They have assigned something labelled as a DOI to CF as a whole, but it isn't a valid DOI.

Jonathan

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Dear Researcher,

I'm contacting you on behalf of FAIRsharing, the online registry of scientific data standards, databases and policies. One of our main aims is to make your resource visible to as large an audience as possible.

Happy 8th Anniversary to your FAIRsharing record for CF metadata convention! To ensure our information is as correct and up to date as possible, would you or someone from your team quickly scan the record and 'claim' it?

Claiming a record as either a group or an individual gives you the opportunity to make changes to the record yourself, allowing you complete control over how your resource is displayed in FAIRsharing. Maintainers are also notified if our curation team edits the record, if users ask questions, or if the record is linked from another record, such as from a journal publisher data policy. In addition, if you claim a record(s) as an individual, you can link the record to your ORCID. As long as you update your record at least once per year, then you will receive an annual "Annotation" work within your ORCID profile as part of how we attribute you.

Please give your record a general review now, checking existing details and adding any relevant new information.

• Your record is linked to 5 databases and 3 standards. Find out more by exploring your record's relationship graph
• There is one publication linked to your record. Do you have one or more publications that should be used to cite your resource? You can also mark one or more publications as the ones to use when citing your resource.
• Your record contains 8 completed fields, but there is other metadata that you can add that could improve the findability of your resource for your community. Please check and update your record metadata, as appropriate for your community's needs.

In summary, please could you visit your record and give it an annual "check-up" using our handy guide? FAIRsharing is about making your resource discoverable to a variety of users, such as journals and publishers, researchers and service providers, research and infrastructure projects and programmes, as well as curators, librarians, funders and other policy makers and data scientists.

Please reply to this email if you have any questions.

Thank you and best wishes,

The FAIRsharing Team

[larsbarring]

From a quick look at their website the Fairsharing organisation seems credible and well connected to the wider community. But I am somewhat surprised that there seems to be a Fairsharing record for CF since 8 years? Without anyone in the CF panel/committees/community having been informed by the issuer until now.

After clicking about a bit more I found something:
https://fairsharing.org/search?q=cf
returns 25 hits, where the 3rd is the "Climate and Forecast Standard Names Parameter Vocabulary", and the 4th is the "Climate and Forecast metadata conventions"

From this I note:

• an unfortunate naming inconsistency in that the CF Standard Name Table suddenly is called something else.
• the CF Conventions record/DOI does in fact exists: it is https://fairsharing.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.hp9s46. In the email there was a typo as the last character ("6") was missing.

When we now have the DOI generation set up via Zenodo and integrated into the publication workflow it seems unnecessary, and even counter-productive to have additional DOI(s) for essential the same resource but assigned by another organisation!

If possible, it would perhaps be useful to have the CF record that uses the Zenodo DOI in the Fairsharing database?

[taylor13]

Didn't receive the FAIRsharing's message. Somehow we should ask that that doi be removed or deprecated in favor of our Zenodo DOI. No Idea how to do that.