Chemistry is a central science with a long history of rich information and data resources traditionally compiled from articles. Is this really the best way of managing research data to ensure reproducibility, reuse, efficiency, and application? What are the compelling use cases for chemical data and what practices are missing to support these? The international chemical information community is examining current practices and connecting with other disciplines and data initiatives to explore how we can collectively and effectively fill the gaps. Experimental and theoretical researchers, educators, data and information scientists, librarians, publishers, database providers, and colleagues across the academic, industrial, private and public sectors are forming a Chemistry Interest Group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). This presentation will highlight specific challenges we could address now with a view to discussing how these can best be tackled.

DIG chemistry: Establishing a research data interest group to address the many faces of chemical data management

251st National Meeting (2016)

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