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Fostering global data sharing: highlighting the recommendations of the Research Data Alliance COVID-19 working group

Claire Austin
Louise Bezuidenhout
Juan Bicarregui
Timea Biro
Anne Cambon-Thomsen
Stephanie Russo Carroll
Thomas Duflot
Leyla Garcia
Anupama Gururaj
Natalie Harrower
Dawei Lin
  • Fonction : Auteur
Claudia Medeiros
Eva Méndez
Natalie Meyers
Daniel Mietchen
Rajini Nagrani
Gustav Nilsonne
Simon Parker
Brian Pickering
Amy Pienta
  • Fonction : Auteur
Panayiota Polydoratou
Fotis Psomopoulos
Robyn Rowe
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Hugh Shanahan
Lina Sitz
Joanne Stocks
Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone
  • Fonction : Auteur
Mary Uhlmansiek

Résumé

The systemic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic require cross-disciplinary collaboration in a global and timely fashion. Such collaboration needs open research practices and the sharing of research outputs, such as data and code, thereby facilitating research and research reproducibility and timely collaboration beyond borders. The Research Data Alliance COVID-19 Working Group recently published a set of recommendations and guidelines on data sharing and related best practices for COVID-19 research. These guidelines include recommendations for clinicians, researchers, policy- and decision-makers, funders, publishers, public health experts, disaster preparedness and response experts, infrastructure providers from the perspective of different domains (Clinical Medicine, Omics, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Community Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Research Software, Legal and Ethical Considerations), and other potential users. These guidelines include recommendations for researchers, policymakers, funders, publishers and infrastructure providers from the perspective of different domains (Clinical Medicine, Omics, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Community Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Research Software, Legal and Ethical Considerations). Several overarching themes have emerged from this document such as the need to balance the creation of data adherent to FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), with the need for quick data release; the use of trustworthy research data repositories; the use of well-annotated data with meaningful metadata; and practices of documenting methods and software. The resulting document marks an unprecedented cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-jurisdictional effort authored by over 160 experts from around the globe. This letter summarises key points of the Recommendations and Guidelines, highlights the relevant findings, shines a spotlight on the process, and suggests how these developments can be leveraged by the wider scientific community.

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hal-03575569 , version 1 (15-02-2022)

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Claire Austin, Alexander Bernier, Louise Bezuidenhout, Juan Bicarregui, Timea Biro, et al.. Fostering global data sharing: highlighting the recommendations of the Research Data Alliance COVID-19 working group. Wellcome Open Research, 2020, 5, pp.267. ⟨10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16378.2⟩. ⟨hal-03575569⟩
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