Interview Questions to Assess Current Plans and Implementations of the FAIR Principles by Data Repositories in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences

As a part of the Enabling FAIR Data project led by the American Geophysical Union, the Repository Guidance Targeted Adoption Group discussed and designed an interview protocol to understand the ways that data repositories in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences (ESES) currently implement and plan to implement the FAIR Principles.   Interviews were conducted with eleven data repositories to guide the activities of the project in encouraging findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable research data, including the development of the Repository Finder tool (http://repositoryfinder.datacite.org) and support for a cohort of ESES repositories to seek CoreTrustSeal certification as trustworthy digital repositories.