OSTP Wants Input on Data Repositories

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking public comments on a draft set of desirable characteristics of data repositories used to locate, manage, share, and use data resulting from federally funded research. The request was published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2020.
With this request, OSTP intends to “identify and help Federal agencies provide more consistent information on desirable characteristics of data repositories for data subject to agency Public Access Plans and data management and sharing policies, whether those repositories are operated by government or non-governmental entities.” Improved consistency in guidelines and best practices for data repositories provided by agencies is expected to reduce the burden for researchers. Feedback from the public will help to inform coordinated agency action.
The proposed set of desirable characteristics of data repositories have been developed by the Subcommittee on Open Science (SOS) of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. SOS aims to advance open science and foster implementation of agency Public Access Plans that were formulated in response to the 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum entitled “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” that called for improved access to data and publications resulting from federally funded R&D.
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Source: Public Policy Reports - January 21, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news