Interweaving the CARE and FAIR Principles in Open Quaternary Data Resources: From reflection to initial action

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Scientific Data
Published
29 Aug 2026
Authors
L. Lieberman, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, A. Thomer, John W. Williams, Meghan A. Balk, Jessica Blois, et al.

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Open data resources in the geosciences seek to advance broad-scale, integrative, ethical, and reproducible research by making high-quality data available to many user communities through goals summarized by the FAIR Principles. Recent papers call for open data repositories to combine these efforts with support for Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov), as represented by the CARE Principles and similar frameworks, but implementation remains uncommon. Here, we share initial reflections and actions by a coalition of open and public Quaternary data resources (the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Open Context, and the Florida Museum of Natural History Environmental Archaeology Program) that represent…

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