# Making FAIR data for specimens accessible

**URL:** <https://discourse.gbif.org/t/making-fair-data-for-specimens-accessible/2420>\
**Category:** Digital/Extended Specimen\
**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/making-fair-data-for-specimens-accessible/2420 "2021-01-30T16:18:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/making-fair-data-for-specimens-accessible/2420/60 "2021-03-05T10:56:03Z")

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I recently saw this policy document from a Canadian project that deals with water/river basin data: ([Data governance policy - Documentation - DataStream](https://datastream.org/en/data-policy)) and mentions this idea of Ethically Open Access. I think this might be an avenue to attempt to combine FAIR and CARE.

> ### Ethically Open Access
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> _ **Data are made available on an equal basis, fully, freely and openly in a timely way. Exemptions to this open data policy are allowable for ethical reasons.** _

Trying to combine FAIR and CARE will be challenging on both the technical (we need more sophistication than just plain access control) and non-technical side (legal and cultural). The conversations around Nagoya/CBS and the points raised by @MAFleming in [this post](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/extending-enriching-and-integrating-data/2421/53) (in the  
Extending, enriching and integrating section) are good starting points to think about a more coordinating discussion. A first step might be to create/use a venue so all the stakeholders can discuss the issues, maybe in RDA where members of this community are also heavily involved. There is an [International Indigenous Data Sovereignty IG](https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/international-indigenous-data-sovereignty-ig) and [Biodiversity Data Integration IG](https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/biodiversity-data-integration-ig.html). Discussions from this consultation can feed into a cross IG collaboration? [CETAF](https://cetaf.org/news/european-commission-recognition-cetaf-code-conduct-and-best-practice-access-and-benefit-sharing) also could be interested in this discussion.

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