Societies submit comments to OSTP about federal data collection

ASA, CSSA, and SSSA responded to a request for comments from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy regarding ideal characteristics of a data repository. The Societies suggested that repositories should ascribe to FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles and that long-term sustainability and business models for repositories need to be defined. But even a well-supported, curated database will not serve the community if researcher participation and database functionality are not fully supported as well. Read the full comments here.