{"id":19603,"date":"2018-05-06T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=19603"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:14:33","slug":"examples-please-of-fair-data-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=19603","title":{"rendered":"Examples please of FAIR (data); good and bad."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The site fairsharing.org<\/a> is a repository of information about FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) objects such as research data.
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A project to inject chemical components, rather sparse at the moment at the above site, is being promoted by workshops under the auspices of e.g. IUPAC and CODATA<\/a>\u00a0and the GO-FAIR initiative<\/a>. One aspect of this activity is to help identify examples of both good (FAIR) and indeed less good (unFAIR) research data as associated with contemporary scientific journal publications.<\/p>\n

Here is one example I came across in 2017.[1]<\/a><\/span>. The data associated with this article is certainly copious, 907 pages of it, not including data for 21 crystal structures! The latter is a good example of FAIR, being offered in a standard format (CIF) well-adapted for the type of data contained therein and for which there are numerous programs capable of visualising and inter-operating (i.e.<\/em> re-using) it. The former is in PDF, not a format originally developed for data and one could argue is closer to the unFAIR end of the spectrum. More so when you consider this one 907-page paginated document contains diverse information including spectra on around 60 molecules. Thus the spectra are all purely visual; they are obviously data but in a form largely designed for human consumption and not re-use by software. The text-based content of this PDF does have numerous pattens, which lends itself to pattern recognition software such as OSCAR, but patterns are easily broken by errors or inexperience and so we cannot be certain what proportion of this can be recovered. The metadata associated with such a collection, if there is any at all, must be general and cannot be easily related to specific molecules in the collection. So I would argue that 907 pages of data as wrapped in PDF is not a good example of FAIR. But it is how almost all of the data currently being reported in chemistry journals is expressed. Indeed many a journal data editor (a relatively new introduction to the editorial teams) exerts a rigorous oversight over the data presented as part of article submissions to ensure it adheres to this monolithic PDF format.<\/p>\n

You can also visit this article in Chemistry World (rsc.li\/2HG7lTk<\/a>) for an alternative view of what could be regarded as rather more FAIR data. The article has citations to the FAIR components, which is not published as part of the article or indeed by the journal itself but is held separately in a research data repository. You will find that at doi:\u00a010.14469\/hpc\/3657<\/a>\u00a0where examples of computational, crystallographic and spectroscopic data are available.<\/p>\n

The workshop I allude to above will be held in July. Can I ask anyone reading this blog who has a favourite FAIR or indeed unFAIR example of data they have come across to share these here. We also need to identify areas simply crying out for FAIRer data to be made available as part of the publishing process beyond the types noted above. I hope to report back on both such feedback and the events at this workshop in due course.<\/p>\n

References<\/h2>\n
  1. J.M. Lopchuk, K. Fjelbye, Y. Kawamata, L.R. Malins, C. Pan, R. Gianatassio, J. Wang, L. Prieto, J. Bradow, T.A. Brandt, M.R. Collins, J. Elleraas, J. Ewanicki, W. Farrell, O.O. Fadeyi, G.M. Gallego, J.J. Mousseau, R. Oliver, N.W. Sach, J.K. Smith, J.E. Spangler, H. Zhu, J. Zhu, and P.S. Baran, \"Strain-Release Heteroatom Functionalization: Development, Scope, and Stereospecificity\", Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, vol. 139, pp. 3209-3226, 2017. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jacs.6b13229<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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