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Toward FAIR and AI-Ready Data: An Assessment of the GlueX Experiment's Data Ecosystem at Jefferson Lab

Anil Panta·Brad Sawatzky·Casey Morean·Dmitry Romanov·Douglas Higinbotham
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Department of Energy programs increasingly require that experimental data be not only preserved but usable by artificial intelligence (AI) systems, yet no accepted standard defines when a dataset is AI-ready. We argue that data must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) before they can be AI-ready, and that AI readiness is a distinct property requiring its own assessment. Using the GlueX experiment in Hall D at Jefferson Lab as a pilot, we map the data ecosystem, assess it against FAIR, and define an AI-readiness framework whose criteria are backed by deterministic metrics. We also evaluate existing validation software to separate what can be assessed with off-the-shelf tools from what requires domain-specific development. The assessment yields a set of findings, each paired with a recommendation, some of which are already in production or prototyped and others planned as next steps.

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Anil Panta, Brad Sawatzky, Casey Morean, Dmitry Romanov, Douglas Higinbotham. 2026-09-28. Toward FAIR and AI-Ready Data: An Assessment of the GlueX Experiment's Data Ecosystem at Jefferson Lab. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34987

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