The harvesting procedures for information on available datasets in partner data repositories (NPI, NERSC and IMR) have been updated. This is still a beta release so duplicates or erroneous records may occur, but preliminary checks show that most harvested and ingested records works fine. Some records have been rejected during ingestion for various reasons.

Barends Mons has published a new opinion piece that may be of interest. This is available at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00505-7.

From the CODATA mailing list:

Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020; followed by the CODATA General Assembly, 24 October 2020.

*Where:* Paris, France
*Venue:* TBC

From the CODATA mailing list:

A special issue on The FAIR Principles: First Generation Implementation Choices and Challenges, has been recently published in *Data Intelligence* . This special issue, organized by Prof. Dr. Barend Mons , the senior author of the foundational paper on FAIR Principles and the President of CODATA, Dr. Erik Schultes and Dr. Annika Jacobsen, contains 28 articles authored by 135 experts from 14 countries/territories worldwide.