The Earth, space, and environmental science data community is focused on improving data management and sharing practices that result in our researchers being better equipped for their work. In 2017, the Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Interest Group initiated with a BoF at P10 in Montreal. Its initial focus was on harmonising research infrastructure projects around the world. Although the focus was on infrastructures, working groups have now spun up on Complex Citations and on Researcher2Publisher workflows. Further, topics discussed have broadened out from Infrastructures and the proposal is to expand and to an RDA Community of Practice that covers all aspects of Earth and environmental sciences, embracing our initial focus on research infrastructures projects to the broader challenges facing our research community.
This Community of Practice, introduced by a BoF at RDA VP22, will provide a neutral platform to coordinate existing efforts and work towards best practices for discipline-specific challenges and issues around data management and sharing. The Earth and environmental community is broad and includes researchers, their institutions, instrument manufacturers, tools, repositories, journal editors and more.

The Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Community of Practice is newly forming and this will be the introduction session to share the scope, priority focus areas, and discussion and discussion on priority focus areas.

0 – 30 min: Introduction and Welcome from each of the co-chair
30 – 45 min: Updates from current projects with group discussion
(5 min) Complex Citations
(5 min) Coordinating Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Processes (Repo2Pub)
(5 min) Discussion
45 – 60 min: Review of and discussion on Priority Focus Areas of the Community of Practice
60 – 80 min: Discussion; recommendations for potential partnerships to support the focus areas
80 – 90 min: Wrap Up

Our target audience includes participants and their organisations associated with the Earth, space, and environmental sciences (ESES) research projects and efforts, as well as users of ESES datasets in other domains anywhere in the world. We particularly welcome participants from Africa, Asia, South America and any other members of the Global South.