Charting a FAIR Direction for the US Government Information Ecosystem

Continuing our exploration of research data management and its commonalities and overlaps with the wider government information sphere, we now turn to the potential application of the FAIR Principles as a framework to explore the ways in which government information may or may not meet public needs for current and future use.

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Considering Government Information in the Age of the Nelson Memo

Advancing preservation and access for public information is a collaborative endeavor that takes many hands and many perspectives. One challenge we encounter in our work with born-digital government information is that, all too often, conversations flourish within a community of practice but do not flow into and throughout others with overlapping expertise and interests. At the PEGI Project, we seek to connect efforts and communities so that those working from a variety of perspectives can collectively translate their experience as it applies to areas of mutual concern.

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