OpenMindat : Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database
OpenMindat : Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database
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OpenMindat：Mindat 数据库中开放且公平的矿物学数据
DOI：
10.1002/gdj3.204
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Lehnert, Kerstin
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作者：
Ma, Xiaogang;Ralph, Jolyon;Zhang, Jiyin;Que, Xiang;Prabhu, Anirudh;Morrison, Shaunna M.;Hazen, Robert M.;Wyborn, Lesley;Lehnert, Kerstin
开放数据运动给矿物学领域带来了革命性的变化。随着社区努力提供越来越多的数据集，研究人员现在能够探索新的科学主题，如矿物生态学，矿物演化和新的分类系统。最近的结果表明，必要的开放数据加上数据科学技能和矿物学专业知识将带来令人印象深刻的新科学发现。然而，来自研究人员的反馈也反映了对开放数据更好的公平性的需求，即人类和机器都可以找到，访问，互操作和重用。在本文中，我们介绍了我们最近的工作，建立开放的数据服务的Mindat，在世界上最大的矿产数据库之一。在过去的几年里，Mindat支持了许多科学研究，但从未建立过用于数据访问的机器接口。通过OpenMindat项目，我们在两个方面取得了扎实的进展：（1）净化数据，提高数据质量;（2）建立数据共享平台，建立数据查询和访问的机器接口。我们希望OpenMindat能够帮助满足矿物学研究人员对国际公认的权威数据库日益增长的数据需求，该数据库完全符合FAIR指导原则，并有助于加速科学发现。
The open data movement has brought revolutionary changes to the field of mineralogy. With a growing number of datasets made available through community efforts, researchers are now able to explore new scientific topics such as mineral ecology, mineral evolution and new classification systems. The recent results have shown that the necessary open data coupled with data science skills and expertise in mineralogy will lead to impressive new scientific discoveries. Yet, feedback from researchers also reflects the needs for better FAIRness of open data, that is, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable for both humans and machines. In this paper, we present our recent work on building the open data service of Mindat, one of the largest mineral databases in the world. In the past years, Mindat has supported numerous scientific studies but a machine interface for data access has never been established. Through the OpenMindat project we have achieved solid progress on two activities: (1) cleanse data and improve data quality, and (2) build a data sharing platform and establish a machine interface for data query and access. We hope OpenMindat will help address the increasing data needs from researchers in mineralogy for an internationally recognized authoritative database that is fully compliant with the FAIR guiding principles and helps accelerate scientific discoveries.