Developing, Supporting, and Using ?Open Data Standards
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has a particular interest in FAIR data, being a government agency that with finite resources ingests and reviews very large quantities of data in the course of developing chemical assessments. This interest gets stronger in proportion to the growing expectation that (a) chemical assessments should be conducted transparently and systematically, and (b) data collected by agencies such as EPA and ECHA should be reused in order to promote the 3Rs in research. This presentation will cover the following issues: (1) what the US EPA expects open data standards to look like; (2) how open data will facilitate integration of research by the scientific community and the assessment products of government agencies into open, transparent FAIR data platforms such as the Health Assessment Workspace Collaborative (HAWC); (3) the role of platforms such as HAWC in supporting chemical assessments specifically, and the reuse of research data in general; (4) how the US EPA is itself supporting the development of open data standards, in particular through development of terminology standards that help researchers consistently and accurately report their methods and results; and (5) how researchers and practitioners can get involved in and benefit from these efforts, via groups such as the Environmental Health Language Collaborative.