GO FAIR at SDSC hosts researchers from Chile

In August, Ricardo Hartley Belmar and Isabel Abedrapo Rosen, researchers from Universidad Central (CL) , visited the GO FAIR US Support and Coordination Office hosted at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at 美国加州大学圣迭戈分校 go to continue the momentum of a GOFAIR workshop held earlier in the year at the Data Observatory in Santiago, Chile.

The collaboration worked together to prepare and release Spanish translations of the FAIR Principles and the popular GOFAIR workshop tool, FAIR Data Stewardship Plan Template for Organizations and Institutions.

The Santiago convening that jumpstarted this work, Developing a FAIR National Strategy and Roadmap in Chile, held in January 2024 was led by GOFAIR US team member Natalie Meyers , a SDSC Computational and Data Scientist, and funded by a grant from the Luksic Family Foundation, which is a non-profit Chilean organization that provides funds toward bettering research and education opportunities in the country.

The January event, the Santiago Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) Workshop, was attended by dozens of participants – ranging from professors of data science to national service providers, government representatives, and funders. The workshop had a hybrid joint session with the ‘10 Years of FAIR’ workshop underway simultaneously in the Netherlands. One of the goals of the collaboration is to draft a national Open Science and FAIR strategy for Chile.

“We were excited to share methods of FAIR and open science with our Chilean colleagues,” Meyers said. “After this initial workshop, we are now working on developing a partnership for student exchanges and fellowships.”

Later, in August, participants from the Santiago workshop met at SDSC to further develop the draft policy. The group in Chile will finalize the nation's strategy, with the GOFAIR team helping to guide the process, and the finalization activity being shepherded by the Data Observatory in Santiago.