At the start of 2020, IUPAC’s Committee on Publications and Cheminformatics Data Standards (CPCDS) formed a Task Force to propose guidelines for the dissemination and sharing of machine-readable chemical data. These guidelines would be for IUPAC to adopt internally and recommend to the wider chemistry community.
The FAIR Data Principles were to be central to these guidelines with the aim to ensure that scientific data management and stewardship will make chemical research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by both humans and machines.