Susanna-Assunta Sansone is a data consultant and honorary academic editor who works on several projects related to making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). She is the associate director of Scientific Data, a peer-reviewed journal focused on publishing data descriptors to describe and provide access to scientifically valuable datasets. The goal of Scientific Data is to help promote open science and data reuse by publishing structured metadata and narratives about datasets alongside traditional research articles.