2025 Presentations (Communicative Events)

Pursuing Opportunities to Balance Efficiency and Effectiveness in Data Review Practices

Downs, Robert R.; Lehnert, Kerstin A.

The Astromaterials Data System (Astromat) is continually striving to improve the user experience. Continuously improving Astromat enables diverse communities to increase their knowledge of our solar system by using open data that have been produced from the laboratory analysis of extraterrestrial samples. Such samples include, among others, meteorites, moon rocks, space dust, and recently returned samples from the asteroid Bennu. Data users across a variety of disciplines can benefit from the availability of open data on astromaterials samples. Curation of astromaterials samples data enables reuse beyond the team that analyzed the samples to produce the data in their laboratories. Data peer review offers opportunities to improve data quality and usability so that the scientific community and the public can study the data and obtain knowledge from the investments in collecting, returning, and analyzing the astromaterials samples and in producing and disseminating the data. A data review typology is depicted to improve understanding about opportunities for data repositories to improve the data review process. A data review use case is presented to illustrate relationships among the actors and the actions performed during the data review process. Challenges for pursuing efficient and effective data peer review are also described.