TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving Towards FAIR Data Practices in Pharmacy Education
AU - McLaughlin, Jacqueline E.
AU - Tropsha, Alexander
AU - Nicolazzo, Joseph A.
AU - Crescenzi, Anita
AU - Brouwer, Kim L.R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - Pharmacy schools are generating significant amounts of data across the training continuum, including data about student selection, performance, and job placement. However, current data practices limit the Academy’s ability to effectively leverage the vast amounts of data available within and across pharmacy institutions. To improve data practices and promote the quality and reusability of data, a set of guiding principles for data management and stewardship were developed and published in 2016. The FAIR principles state that digital objects should be findable (ie, data have a unique identifier and are registered in a searchable resource), accessible (ie, data are retrievable by their identifier using an open, free, standard-ized protocol), interoperable (ie, data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language, and include qualified references to other data), and reusable (ie, data are described with accurate and relevant attributes, released with a data usage license, and meet domain-relevant community standards). This commentary advocates for improved data practices and provides recommendations for advancing FAIR data principles in pharmacy education.
AB - Pharmacy schools are generating significant amounts of data across the training continuum, including data about student selection, performance, and job placement. However, current data practices limit the Academy’s ability to effectively leverage the vast amounts of data available within and across pharmacy institutions. To improve data practices and promote the quality and reusability of data, a set of guiding principles for data management and stewardship were developed and published in 2016. The FAIR principles state that digital objects should be findable (ie, data have a unique identifier and are registered in a searchable resource), accessible (ie, data are retrievable by their identifier using an open, free, standard-ized protocol), interoperable (ie, data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language, and include qualified references to other data), and reusable (ie, data are described with accurate and relevant attributes, released with a data usage license, and meet domain-relevant community standards). This commentary advocates for improved data practices and provides recommendations for advancing FAIR data principles in pharmacy education.
KW - FAIR
KW - reproducibility
KW - research
KW - rigor
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127417606&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5688/ajpe8670
DO - 10.5688/ajpe8670
M3 - Comment / Debate
AN - SCOPUS:85127417606
VL - 86
SP - 163
EP - 166
JO - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
JF - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
SN - 0002-9459
IS - 3
M1 - 8670
ER -