What is the IUPAC FAIR Chemistry Cookbook?

The IUPAC FAIR Chemistry Cookbook (the "Cookbook") is a resource developed to enable the chemical sciences community to move toward making their data, code, metadata, etc. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable or FAIR. FAIR is described by a set of principles by which research data, research code, workflows, ... the whole data lifecycle can be re-imagined to enable preservation of research data, data processing, versioning, and provenance along with appropriate descriptive metadata at each stage.

As a result, the content in the Cookbook is designed to train, encourage, and enable chemistry researchers and data professionals to make their practices, workflows and data more FAIR. FAIR does not dictate exactly how researchers should go about this process so the Cookbook content highlights resources, data sources, approaches and/or best practices that can be implemented at different stages in the research process to move the needle on FAIR.

The Cookbook uses the metaphor of recipes as a way to translate the different types of resources into parts of the research process or the different levels of users, from those that are just starting out in chemistry, to professional chemists, to IT and data science professionals looking to work with chemical data. Please, if you don't find content that fits your need, please reach out ([email protected]) and tell us what is missing.