Part of the The “How FAIR are you” webinar series and hackathon, which aim at increasing and facilitating the uptake of FAIR approaches into software, training materials and cohort data, to facilitate responsible and ethical data and resource sharing and implementation of federated applications for data analysis. More information at * the webinar page: https://www.cineca-project.eu/news-events-all/how-fair-are-you-hackathon * the recording of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdGZOynyuGo

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datareadiness.eng.ox.ac.uk
@FAIRsharing_org
contact@fairsharing.org
Allyson Lister, PhD
ORCiD: 0000-0002-7702-4495 | Twitter: @allysonlister

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Outline
● Overview of FAIRsharing
● Viewing Records
● Editing Records
● More than a Registry
● Community Curation

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Overview of FAIRsharing

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We can help make your standard, database or policy FAIR
• Findable - use PID schemas, use schema.org mark-up, add metadata to
FAIRsharing
• Accessible - Advertise your level of openness – access protocols and
licenses are clearly described
• Interoperable – Use community standards for reporting, models,
formats and terminologies
• Reusable - Licensing and linked resources show reusability of your
resource and its contents

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COMMUNITY STANDARDS
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
DATA POLICIES
by funders, journals and other
organizations
Curated inter-linked
descriptions
We guide consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence
We help producers to make their resources more visible, more widely adopted and cited

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Viewing Records

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Descriptive metadata
Community
endorsement
Ontology fields

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Citable DOI
Publication DOI
Maintainer attribution & contact
Edit history and tracking
Relationship links
between resources
Contacts, Support
and Training
Materials

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Access protocols and
licencing
Further Attribution

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Publications
Attribution and
funding

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Collections and Recommendations
• Collections: grouped by project or organisation
• CDISC
• ELIXIR Life Science Core Data Resources
• National Transportation Data Preservation Network (NTDPN)
• Recommendations: journal and funder collections based on a data
policy
• Elsevier
• Springer Nature
• PLOS

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Editing Records

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Is your resource already in FAIRsharing?

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● You are the expert
○ Your efforts as a maintainer are recognized and advertised
● Your curation will guide researchers and data stewards to your resource
○ The current status of the resource
○ The best tags for describing it
○ High-quality relationships to the database / standards that you use or collaborate with
● Your metadata informs journals and publishers
○ Rich metadata gives your resource visibility to journals or publishers
○ Use and maturity indicators, as well as emerging global certifications, will aid in the selection or
recommendation of your resource
Benefits of Creating and Maintaining Records

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CV terms for
Findabilty, visibility

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Crosslinks: is your resource
Interoperable & Reusable ?

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Downloadable tools for your
community (Interoperable and
Reusable)
Publications describing your resource
(Findable)
Web services or other data discovery
methods (e.g. API, OAI-PMH, SPARQL
endpoints) (Accessible)

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Release access, search/browse,
data submission/duration
(Findable)
Licencing (Accessible)
Support / help pages, training
resources (Reusable)

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More than a Registry

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A growing number of data management plan, data stewardship and FAIR assessments tools
access FAIRsharing (via API) as a look-up and select service for standards and repositories
including
ds-wizard.org
dmponline.dcc.ac.uk
w3id.org/AmIFAIR fairshake.cloud
Examples of use by third party tools

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https://fairsharing.org/recommendation/ScientificData

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Community Curation

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Become a Community Curator: Near Future
● Do you have a broad and deep understanding of the standards and databases most
relevant in your field?
● Help your community by adding those resources to FAIRsharing
○ Record maintainers only describe those resources they are directly involved with
○ Community curators can manage the entire ecosystem of records within your
domain of interest
● Leaderboard of community curators to promote the work you do in your research
domain
● Add resources that you know should be in FAIRsharing
● We can suggest resources to you that are in your domain and have been requested by
your community

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Thank you!
Thanks also go to Peter McQuilton, Susanna-Assunta
Sansone and Delphine Dauga, who contributed
material for this presentation.