External Reference Links

An Analysis of Federal Policy on Public Access to Scientific Research Data
Kriesberg, Huller, Punzalan, and Parr. June, 2017.
Examination of how 19 federal agencies responded on issues of scientific data and the extent of their compliance to the directives outlined in the 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy Memo from 2013.

Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: Making Automated Systems Work for the American People
October 2022
A white paper published by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It is intended to support the
development of policies and practices that protect civil rights and promote democratic values in the building,
deployment, and governance of automated systems.

DataCite
DataCite is a leading global non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data and other research outputs. Organizations within the research community join DataCite as members to be able to assign DOIs to all their research outputs. This way, their outputs become discoverable, and associated metadata is made available to the community. DataCite then develops additional services to improve the DOI management experience, making it easier for our members to connect and share their DOIs with the broader research ecosystem and to assess the use of their DOIs within that ecosystem. DataCite is an active participant in the research community and promotes data sharing and citation through community-building efforts and outreach activities.

Data.gov
Under the OPEN Government Data Act, which is Title II of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, government data is required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while continuing to ensure privacy and security. gov was launched in 2009 to address these concerns and is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service.  It is powered by two open source applications, CKAN and WordPress, and it is developed publicly on GitHub. EDX submissions with an accompanying DOI number are discoverable in data.gov.

Federal Cloud Computing Strategy
The 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy — Cloud Smart — is a long-term, high-level strategy to drive cloud adoption in Federal agencies. This is the first cloud policy update in seven years, offering a path forward for agencies to migrate to a safe and secure cloud infrastructure. This new strategy will support agencies to achieve additional savings, security, and will deliver faster services.

Geoplatform
The Geospatial Platform (GeoPlatform) is a strategic national resource that supports the Administration’s Open Government, Open Data and Digital Government strategies to enhance transparency, collaboration and participation. The Geospatial Platform is a cross-agency collaborative effort and Shared Service that embodies the principles and spirit of Open Government, emphasizing government-to-citizen communication, accountability, and transparency. GeoPlatform.gov, operating under the authority of the Geospatial Data Act of 2018, established its primary role to make federal geospatial data assets more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable with special emphasis as the authorized source for all the official National Geospatial Data Assets (NGDAs) across 18 Data themes as guided by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).

Lessons Learned From Federal Use of Cloud Computing to Support AI R&D  
by the ML and AI SUBCOMMITTEE, NSTC, July 2022.
National Science and Technology Council, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee report released July 2022 aims to capture lessons learned from the activities spearheaded by various agencies to enhance access to cloud computing resources to advance federally funded AI R&D and highlight potential opportunities going forward for optimizing Federal use of commercial cloud as a component of broader efforts to further AI R&D that can accelerate scientific discovery and address societal challenges.

Memorandum For the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
This memorandum provides policy guidance to federal agencies with research and development
expenditures on updating their public access policies.

National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 (DIVISION E, SEC. 5001) became law on January 1, 2021, providing for a coordinated program across the entire Federal government to accelerate AI research and application for the Nation’s economic prosperity and national security. AI.gov, home of the National AI Initiative and connection point to ongoing activities to advance U.S. leadership in AI.

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program
The Nation’s primary source of federally funded research and development (R&D) in advanced information technologies (IT) in computing, networking, and software. NITRD coordinates Federal R&D to identify, develop, and transition into use the secure, advanced IT, high-performance computing, networking, and software capabilities needed by the Nation, and to foster public-private partnerships that provide world-leading IT capabilities.

Re3data
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions. re3data promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI)
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), a unit of the Office of Science, fulfills agency-wide responsibilities to collect, preserve, and disseminate both unclassified and classified scientific and technical information (STI) emanating from DOE-funded research and development (R&D) activities at DOE national laboratories and facilities and at universities and other institutions nationwide.

The Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles from FORCE11
FORCE11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. The Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles is a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object.